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Weeks after protesters toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into Baltimore's Inner Harbor, members of the city's Italian American community are developing a plan to reproduce the marble monument so it can be displayed in a more secure location.

When the coronavirus pandemic first hit the Washington area in mid-March, shuttering many local restaurants and businesses, the lines at a weekly food pantry sponsored by the Spanish Catholic Center immediately jumped from about 60 people to hundreds.

When Zoe, 10, showed up late for summer camp at the Vatican, she did not expect to see Pope Francis there.

A wave of recent attacks on Catholic statues around the country and fires at two churches prompted the chairmen of two U.S. bishops' committees to decry "the destruction of these holy symbols of selfless love and devotion."

Schools and a Catholic parish in New Jersey expressed pain but also offered prayers following the killing of 20-year-old Daniel Anderl, son of a federal judge, who was a student at The Catholic University of America in Washington.

Kevin Zenner, 63, chair of the Theology Department at St. Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights, remembers being the same age as the 17- and 18-year-old seniors who take his advanced morality class. Back then, he didn’t know how much things cost, just like many of his students don’t know today. Things like rent, car insurance, day care, a week of groceries ....

An informal survey of local families about schools recently conducted by the Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire, found that eight out of 10 families indicated their child missed interaction with classmates and teachers during the pandemic-related national lockdown.

Fifty years ago, two sisters from India’s Franciscan Clarist Congregation arrived at St. Therese in Deephaven.