Their 8-year-old boy killed in the Boston Marathon bombings of April 2013.

Pope Francis has considered the possibility of visiting Cuba in September—before or after his trip to the United States—but discussions with Cuban authorities are so preliminary that the idea cannot be considered more than a hypothesis, the Vatican said."Contacts with the Cuban auth

A northwest side native, he was the sixth Cardinal to lead Chicago's 2.3 million Catholics.

The morning of April 22 1915 French and Canadian soldiers were immovably entrenched to the north of Ypres a Belgian city in the Flemish province of West Flanders nbsp They saw a strange green-yellow cloud form above the opposing German trenches It then billowed across no man rsquo s land into

It's notable a scholastic's superiors granted him permission to publicly identify as gay.

April 17, 2015Santa MartaHumiliation for its own sake is masochism, but when it is suffered and endured in the name of the Gospel it makes us like Jesus. That was what Pope Francis said in his homily at the Mass at Casa Santa Marta, as he invited Christians to never cultivate sentiments of hatred, b

In a five-part series released the week of March 16th from the National Catholic Reporter, "God’s Community in the Castro," a parishioner from San Francisco’s Most Holy Redeemer parish had this to say about his spiritual home: "We don't see ourselves as a gay comm

Last month I published a number of articles about the surveys being used to gather information from Catholics all over the world in preparation for next October rsquo s Synod on the Family In the last of my four pieces I tried to find out what was being done in other parts of the world In a number

Who will be addressing graduates of Catholic universities this spring?

On amazon.com, there is an amazing statistic: 9,089 people reviewed or commented on Bill O’Reilly’s book, Killing Jesus.  The vast majority of these reviews are quite favorable.  The audible version of the book has 2,129 reviews or comments. There are around 700 reviews of the

The San Francisco Archdiocese said the full-page advertisement in the San Francisco Chronicle April 16 urging Pope Francis to oust San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone over morality clauses and other policies "is a misrepresentation of Catholic teaching."The ad also is "a

The first act of violence in the funny, harrowing new play Hand to God is visited upon a helpless hand puppet. A shy, ambivalent teen, Jason, is trying to persuade his widowed mother to excuse him and Tyrone, the mangy homemade puppet that seems to have taken up permanent residence on Jason’s

Adjunct professors join protests across the United States for a higher minimum wage.

What can the U.S. learn from other nations' policies?

Robert McElroy was installed yesterday as bishop of San Diego Below is the complete homily a Spanish version nbsp here from his installation Mass In January of this year America was riveted for nine days as Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgenson set out to accomplish a task that for over three decad

The process of arriving at new statutes and bylaws was not always smooth.

Pope Francis spent 50 minutes with a delegation from the Leadership Conference of American Women Religious LCWR today after the Vatican rsquo s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith CDF and the LCWR announced in a joint report that they had reached a positive conclusion to a three-year e

April 16, 2015Santa MartaPope Francis on Thursday offered the Mass at Casa Santa Marta for his predecessor, the Pope Emeritus, on the occasion of Benedict XVI’s 88th birthday. “I want to remember that today is the birthday of Benedict XVI,” Pope Francis said at the liturgy. “

Keeping welfare recipients away from nail salons does nothing to foster independence.