By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY — Making churches accessible and services understandable is important, but having wheelchair ramps and sign-language interpreters is not enough…
BOSTON — Every two years the U.S. Postal Service issues a traditional first-class Christmas stamp showing Mary and Jesus, and this year’s stamp features…
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Dec. 5 announced a redesignation of Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and an extension of TPS for…
By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON — In a case examining the scope of free speech protected by the First Amendment, the Supreme Court Dec. 5…
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY — A person who helps others but does not worship God is a “good atheist,” while someone who claims…
By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY — The season of Advent is a moment of grace to help believers stop being presumptuous and pretending to…
By Beth Griffin RYE, N.Y. — Ten years ago, Newtown, Connecticut was catapulted into the national spotlight when a young man shot and killed…
By Barb Umberger MINNEAPOLIS — Parishioners at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Minneapolis, about half of whom are deaf, had the chance…
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY — Migration across the Mediterranean Sea is as old as humanity, and while some governments say they want to…
By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON — The head of the Archdiocese of New Orleans spoke of horror and pain in a Nov. 30 statement, following…