Jeanne Meyer strongly advocates praying for peace in the face of what she called the “the evil that has taken over” as Russia’s military continues an assault on Ukraine that began Feb. 24. Meyer, 71, put her prayers to work with about 90 others Feb. 27 at a vespers service for peace at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis.
When I was 13, I went on a church youth retreat and felt strongly that God was calling me to be a pastor. I was Lutheran and imagined that after going to college, I would go straight to seminary.
Sandra Williams Ortega was stunned to see two high-ranking ROTC leaders standing on her front porch as she was coming home from classes at Morgan State College in Baltimore.
Although next year's world Synod of Bishops on synodality may seem like it would be something far removed from U.S. Catholic college students, many are hoping that's not the case.
In 1956, 17-year-old Sister Cora Marie Billings of Philadelphia entered the Sisters of Mercy in Merion, Pennsylvania, becoming the first Black member of the Philadelphia community.
As half a million Ukrainians crossed the borders into neighboring countries to flee the war, the European Ukrainian diaspora and ordinary citizens turned out to welcome and help transport, feed and house them.
An estimated 5.2 million children in 21 countries, including the United States, lost at least one parent, a custodial grandparent or a primary caregiver to COVID-19 during the first 20 months of the pandemic, social researchers and child well-being advocates said in a new study.
Vice President Kamala Harris Feb. 24 held a ceremonial swearing-in of Catholic lawyer Joe Donnelly of Indiana as the new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See.