Catholic News
Louisiana priest in stable condition after machete attack
A priest in Melville, Louisiana, is stable and recovering following a July 13 attack with a machete at his church campus.
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Union vows more strikes until California hotel workers get living wages
Hotel workers in Southern California walked off the job for three days around the Independence Day holiday asking for higher wages, affordable family health care, a retirement pension, and manageable workloads.
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Bishop: Suffering from war, hunger ‘beyond human imagination’ in Ethiopia
Stopping food aid in Ethiopia from the United States and United Nations caused severe hunger that has killed hundreds of people in the northern Tigray region in recent weeks, and one local bishop said the situation is "beyond human imagination."
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Purity & Purpose: The Brief Life of St. Maria Goretti
Maria Goretti's canonization saw the conversion of her murderer and his reconciliation with her family. Today she is known as a model of mercy.
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Vatican hosts astronomers of tomorrow for summer school
In the hilltop town home to the former summer residence of popes, two domes tower over residences and restaurants: the Baroque dome of a church topped with an iron cross and another that can be opened to reveal a now-retired ...
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Church activists struggle against growing slavery-like labor in Brazil
The number of people working in slavery-like conditions in Brazil is the highest in 11 years. With 1,443 identified cases from Jan. 1 to June 14, the first half of 2023 already has the highest number of such occurrences in ...
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Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Grief Ministry helps families affected by mass shootings
The Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Grief Ministry is working to help the families affected by the July 2 mass shooting in the South Baltimore community of Brooklyn that claimed the lives of 20-year-old Kylis Fagbemi and 18-year-old Aaliyah Gonzalez.