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With a pilgrim's staff and mantle, Pope Francis entered Assisi's Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels with 500 economically or socially disadvantaged people and the volunteers who walk alongside them.

"I hope he knows how awesome he is!" said a seventh grader at All Saints Catholic School when students sprang into action to honor Roy Ward of Bangor, a World War II veteran who celebrated his 102nd birthday on Veterans Day itself.

Most of the parades, ceremonies and other celebrations marking Veterans Day are over for another year, but Latisha Koetting has made it her mission to ensure that U.S. military veterans receive the honor they deserve 365 days a year.

A billboard will go up in New York's Times Square during Christmas and New Year's to promote and celebrate the evermore popular podcast "The Bible in a Year," but more is in store for the program that topped the charts shortly after its debut in January.

Father Eric Albertson said he felt called to serve God and country, and as a military chaplain he is doing just that.

A limited number of parishes in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Archdiocesan Catholic Center in St. Paul would be impacted by federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements issued Nov. 4 but suspended two days later by court challenges.

The Catholic Church must proclaim Jesus Christ "boldly" and "creatively" in the face of new secular movements that promote "social justice," "wokeness" and "intersectionality," among other beliefs, as the answer to all of society's ills, Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said Nov. 4.

At their June assembly, when the U.S. bishops debated a proposal to draft a statement on the Eucharist, some of the bishops asked whether it would address denying Communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion.