Sara Blauvelt, Secretary for Catechesis for The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, welcomes about 750 catechists from ...

On the first day of the public session of the U.S. bishops’ annual fall meeting in Baltimore, the importance of the Church’s ...

Economic concerns among voters likely played a key role in former President Donald Trump’s defeat of Vice President Kamala ...

Voters in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota Nov. 5 rejected amendments to their state constitutions that would have codified ...

The Catholic Church “always insists on the dignity of the human person from the moment of conception to the moment of natural ...

Thanksgiving has always been special to me. It is a great day for family. It may be my favorite liturgy of the year as so ...

Family members of the late Ethel Skakel Kennedy carry her casket to the front of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 16, 2024 during a celebratio ...

The U.S. bishops’ annual fall assembly in Baltimore saw the shepherds of the Catholic Church in this country make intentional steps toward integrating their work with the synodal missionary style ...

With immigration an ongoing issue after the 2024 U.S. general election, three U.S. Catholic bishops issued a Nov. 14 statement of pastoral concern pledging support for immigrants. “Compelled by the ...

Q: What scriptural basis is there for praying for the dead, for their repose, or for praying to the dead, for their intercessions? And in a related way, what scriptural basis is there for the Catholic ...

(This column is part of “The Light of Faith and Care at the Sunset of Life,” a series on the Catholic Standard website and newspaper on the Catholic response to end-of-life issues. This series is done ...

In 1918, when Benedictines in Minnesota gave Anna Cordelia Zervas her religious name, Sister Mary Annella, her mother reacted with surprise. “But there is no St. Annella,” she is reported to have said ...