For clergy, musicians, and pastoral staff, funerals are often the most sensitive and challenging of responsibilities. For those suffering great loss, grief enters their life, usually to stay. Attendin ...
On Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1909, Cardinal William O'Connell of Boston delivered an address to veterans of the Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Veterans of the Civil War, ...
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Dicastery for Legislative Texts are setting up a working group to study how ...
Once upon a time, fasting was an expectation. Prayer, almsgiving (charity) and fasting were seen by the early church as naturally supporting and completing each other. They've been call ...
As we move closer to winter, we anticipate the holidays and the fact that the New Year is just around the corner. When it comes to our responsibility as a steward of Providence during th ...
A true study and understanding of the church's history and experience are needed to help priests better interpret today's world, to make the Gospel more relevant and to counter i ...
The church's support for immigrant communities must "go beyond words" amid fears of potential mass deportation efforts, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, who is chairman of the U.S. Conference ...
Q: Is Dec. 9 a day of obligation? Is this rule new? Is it just for America? (Rochester, New York) A: Normally, Dec. 9 is not ...
Remember HAL? For those whose memories may not go back that far, HAL (Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer) was the ...
Each generation must fight the battle anew. After watching the Berlin Wall fall in 1989, it seemed like Communism was on its heels. Today, it continues to spread and has become more assertive through ...
Beginning March 27, the fifth season of the hit series "The Chosen," which focuses on the life of Jesus and his closest disciples, will hit theaters in the weeks leading up to Easter, which is April ...
In today's complex society, it takes effort to ensure that your hard-earned money, once invested and out in the financial ...