PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput announced March 7 that the archdiocese will consolidate some facilities and close some buildings on the campus of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary ...

PHILADELPHIA – A vacation house at the South Jersey shore used by generations of elderly priests was sold at auction by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for $4.5 million Sept. 15. Steve and Ilene ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Msgr. Edward J. Arsenault, president and CEO of St. Luke Institute in Silver Spring, has resigned in the wake of an investigation into an alleged inappropriate adult relationship ...

LAC STE. ANNE, Alberta – For years, the alcohol, the drugs, the parties consumed Taras Kraychuk. Then, literally, he saw the light. He’s now Father Taras (Terry) Kraychuk, serving as a hieromonk – ...

OAKLAND, Calif. – Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, to be installed in October as archbishop of San Francisco, was arrested in San Diego early Aug. 26 for driving under the influence. The archbishop ...

A Virginia woman who claims a priest sexually abused her while meeting with her to perform exorcisms has filed suit against the Virginia-based pro-life group he formerly headed and the Arlington ...

FORISTELL, Mo. – The truck driver sat at the restaurant counter, happy to have someone to talk with at the end of a long day. A Protestant, he goes to church about five times a year, mostly because he ...

BALTIMORE – Christopher Gaul, former reporter and managing editor of The Catholic Review, newspaper of the Baltimore Archdiocese, was remembered after his death Oct. 18 for his creative, careful and ...

Recently, I visited some relatives in New Jersey. At their parish, they do not have regular private confessions, but a service where everyone prays and then the priests gives absolution. I thought ...

Jane Austen’s classic novel “Sense and Sensibility” is on the silver screen once again. The beloved story, which follows the Dashwood sisters as they make new life for themselves in the wake of their ...

Two years ago, Bryan Layman traveled to Malawi to rebuild roads in a remote village. What he wasn’t expecting was to build on a relationship between a Catholic diocese in the African nation and the ...

Ten years after “Amoris Laetitia,” Pope Leo XIV convened the presidents of the world’s bishops’ conferences at the Vatican Oct. 7-14, with handing on the faith through the family among the themes. In ...