Ahead of the World Day for Consecrated Life Feb. 2 – an observance that was instituted in 1997 by St. John Paul II and is attached to the feast of the Presentation of the Lord – OSV News spoke with ...

Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez of Philadelphia is calling for prayer, saying his “heart sank” after learning of a fatal air crash in that city Jan. 31, just two days after a midair collision between a ...

The speakers at a Jan. 29 reception at the U.S. Capitol celebrating the 20 th anniversary of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program included government and community leaders who played key roles in ...

Father Albert Anuszewski, a priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives (Trinitarians) for more than 30 years, has been named the new president of DeMatha Catholic High School in ...

Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the apostolic administrator of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, issued the following statement Jan. 30 following the deadly mid-air crash near Ronald Reagan ...

In the nation’s capital – which is often known for political divisions – a group of national and community leaders, along with school officials, students and parents, came together at the U.S. Capitol ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has formally recognized that five Franciscan missionaries ministering in what is now the U.S. state of Georgia were killed for their faith. By signing the decree in ...

When Catholic Schools Week rolls around in late January, I literally go back to Catholic school. This week, I’m reporting on two events related to our Catholic schools, a 20 th anniversary reception ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – “The horror of the extermination of millions of Jews and people of other faiths” before and during World War II “can neither be forgotten nor denied,” Pope Francis said. After ...

U.S. Catholic bishops – joined by Pope Francis – are calling for prayer after a deadly aviation crash in the nation’s capital claimed dozens of lives. “Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of ...

Think Christmas was over weeks ago? Think again. The Feast of the Presentation officially closes the Christmas season, 40 days after the Nativity, so there’s still one last chance to wish the world ...

“God did not create Auschwitz, God created man,” said Cardinal Grzegorz Rys of Lodz after the Jan. 27 commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazis’ biggest death camp: ...