Cardinal Wilton Gregory has issued a decree granting the faithful of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington ...

When the St. Peter Claver Gospel Choir sang the spiritual, “We Have Come This Far by Faith,” those words rang true for the ...

(This column is part of “The Light of Faith and Care at the Sunset of Life,” a series on the Catholic Standard website and ...

The Catholic Church “always insists on the dignity of the human person from the moment of conception to the moment of natural ...

The U.S. bishops’ annual fall assembly in Baltimore saw the shepherds of the Catholic Church in this country make intentional steps toward integrating their work with the synodal missionary style ...

With immigration an ongoing issue after the 2024 U.S. general election, three U.S. Catholic bishops issued a Nov. 14 statement of pastoral concern pledging support for immigrants. “Compelled by the ...

Q: What scriptural basis is there for praying for the dead, for their repose, or for praying to the dead, for their intercessions? And in a related way, what scriptural basis is there for the Catholic ...

Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, the head of the Anglican Communion, resigned Nov. 12 due to failures in dealing with a British abuse case. “It is very clear that I must take personal and ...

In 1918, when Benedictines in Minnesota gave Anna Cordelia Zervas her religious name, Sister Mary Annella, her mother reacted with surprise. “But there is no St. Annella,” she is reported to have said ...

Family members of the late Ethel Skakel Kennedy carry her casket to the front of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 16, 2024 during a celebratio ...

Methods of further incorporating “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical on care of creation, into the life of the Church at the local and national level was a point of discussion for the U.S.