Pope, patriarch offer prayers as young Europeans hold Taizé prayer online
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY — Although young adults from across Europe will not pray in the New Year together in Turin, they were…
Vatican adds QR code to sculpture to educate people about migration
Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — A life-sized bronze sculpture of migrants and refugees crowded onto a boat has stood in St. Peter’s Square…
Communities in need
receive an outpouring
of material aid, support
Ginny Schaeffer’s 85-year-old mother sat on the edge of her bathtub clutching a flashlight in one hand and a rosary in the other as…
Archdiocese schools and parishes
send aid to tornado victims
Record Staff Reports With less than two weeks until Christmas, Catholic schools and churches immediately responded to the needs of survivors of the Western…
St. Monica commemorates
African American faith
community’s 150th anniversary
BARDSTOWN, Ky. — Processing through the quiet streets of downtown Bardstown Dec. 12, members of St. Monica Church sang, “We’ve come this far by…
Catholic Services Appeal
still needs help to reach
its largest goal to date
The Archdiocese of Louisville’s 2021 Catholic Services Appeal has reached 72 percent of its goal, yet there’s still a ways to go for the…
Vatican announces pope will bring migrants from Cyprus to Italy
By Cindy Wooden NICOSIA, Cyprus — After Pope Francis denounced putting up “barbed wire” to keep out migrants and the practice of pushing boats…
St. Bernadette
parishioner
runs on faith
Though Dr. Joseph Jim Creely has qualified for the prestigious Boston Marathon eight years in a row, he still thinks of running as simply…
Priest brings faith
to the finish line
As Father Michael Tobin ran through downtown Boston during the final few miles of the Boston Marathon in October, he was fully in the…
Local teens say
national conference helps
to strengthen faith in God
INDIANAPOLIS — Among the 10,000 or so young Catholics who gathered at the Indiana Convention Center Nov. 18 to 20 for the National Catholic…