Catholic Extension receives $1.5 million grant for Puerto Rico recovery work
byWASHINGTON — A $1.5 million grant awarded by the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee on Catholic Home Missions will support Catholic Extension’s ongoing disaster recovery work…
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USCCB migration chairman says Senate needs to act on ‘Dreamer,’ TPS bill
byWASHINGTON — The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration has urged the U.S. Senate to take action and pass a bill to…
Editorial — New opportunities for life
byThe three-day fall general meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops that ended yesterday covered a wide variety of topics facing the…
Bishop: Shootings show ‘all communities are affected by racism’
byBy Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Three mass shooting incidents in the United States in the span of a week are now…
Listening session about racism to be held at University of Dayton
byThe USCCB Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism will hold a listening session on March 8 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Kennedy…
Kurtz: ‘Gift of religious freedom’ at risk of ‘being taken for granted’
byBy Jeff Grant Catholic News Service PHOENIX (CNS) – Despite its prominence in the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights, “the gift of religious freedom”…
U.S. Senate fails to pass measure to make Hyde Amendment permanent
byBy Julie Asher Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — In a vote on the eve of the annual March for Life, the Senate Jan….
School presents Archbishop Kurtz with award
byBy Jessica Able, Record Staff Writer At St. Xavier High School’s Dec. 2 Mass to celebrate its Blue Ribbon Award and its patron’s feast day,…
Archbishop Kurtz sees joy, hope, challenges for church during presidency
byBy Chaz Muth, Catholic News Service LOUISVILLE, Ky. — On a seasonably warm, drizzly Nov. 3 evening, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz drove his white Toyota…
Editorial — A ‘genocide’ at sea
byThere are bodies floating in the Mediterranean Sea, bodies that fell from ramshackle boats that capsize almost daily. The bodies are those of people…