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If youth ministers, catechists and other faith formation volunteers don’t have a personal relationship with Jesus, it is difficult to pass on the faith to others, said Karen Avila, a student information coordinator at a high school in southern California.

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, currently facing charges of embezzlement and abuse of office, said Pope Francis invited him to attend the Aug. 27 consistory.

From death to new life, from devastation to hope, from fear to newfound faith, the people of Humphreys County have experienced a range of emotions over the last year as they recover from the catastrophic flash floods that hit the area, particularly Waverly and McEwen, Aug. 21, 2021.

The June 21 Supreme Court ruling in Carson v. Makin declaring that a Maine tuition aid program excluding religious schools was unconstitutional resurrected interest in what are known as Blaine amendments.

At least three decades of effort in Minnesota to broaden school choice to include religious and other private schools received a boost from a June U.S. Supreme Court decision, Carson v. Makin, when the high court clearly determined: "A state need not subsidize private education but once a state decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious."

A U.S. District Court judge in Maryland has ruled that Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops' overseas relief and development agency, must offer health care coverage to the spouses of gay employees as long as the employees' jobs are nonreligious in nature.

Catholic nuns from a missionary order in the Philippines have denounced a criminal charge accusing them of financing terrorism and violating the country's anti-terrorism law.

Pope Francis offered prayers and condolences to the victims of a fire in an Orthodox Church that took the lives of 41 people -- including 18 children -- who died in a fire in Egypt's capital, Cairo.