Featured

I sometimes joke that I sin less in October. But it might actually be true. God seems to be more on my mind during the fall, and, therefore, it seems easier to seek out and cooperate with his grace.

Colorado baker Jack Phillips, whose refusal to make a same-sex wedding cake on religious grounds went to the Supreme Court, is currently fighting a ruling that he violated the state's anti-discrimination law for refusing to bake a cake to celebrate a gender transition.

Noting the June 24 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the high court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion across the country, Minnesota’s bishops released a statement calling on Catholics to make “how a candidate will work for prenatal justice a pre-eminent consideration” as they enter the voting booth Nov. 8.

As a child, Virgil Blacklance heard stories about Indian boarding schools, one of which his father attended. He recalled that after events like powwows concluded, families would often go back to their encampments and gather around fires where “the old people” would sit and visit, he said. When Blacklance and other children grew tired from playing, they’d sit and listen to their stories.

Catholic Charities leaders from around the country could watch renowned Canadian sculptor Timothy Paul Schmalz create a new piece depicting Jesus embracing a homeless person as they held their 2022 annual gathering in Baltimore Sept. 27-29.

The holiness of saints is reflected not only in how they overcame struggles but by their ability to transmit the joy that comes from being loved by God, Pope Francis said.

A date for a new papal statement on the Doctrine of Discovery, promised by Pope Francis on his way home from Canada to Rome in July, has not been announced. But whenever it happens, it is likely to address core concerns of Indigenous people in Canada and in many other parts of the world.

Father Patrick O'Connor, pastor of Jesús Obrero (Jesus the Worker) Parish, northwest of downtown Fort Myers, orchestrated a familiar operation Oct. 4 as he shuffled about his parish hall stacked high with clothing.