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Jaymie Stuart Wolfe

Our Lady of Deliverance

Scott Hahn

A royal truth

Richard Clark

St. Cecilia and hope in sacred song

Bishop Robert Reed

The 'month of the dead' brings its own strange refreshment

Michael Reardon

Building a legacy

Maureen Crowley Heil

Make New Friends, But Keep the Old

St. John's Seminary marks 140 years with MFA gala

Black Catholic community presents annual awards for service

Archbishop Henning thanks Appeal donors at cathedral Mass

Catholic groups merge events for giant pro-life youth rally before March for Life

UPDATE: How will JD Vance's newly found Catholic faith affect his vice presidential role?

Archbishop Pérez: Cubans are 'suffering immense hardships' and 'need our help'

Bishops decry move to add 'right' to abortion, same-sex marriage to Virginia constitution

Pope calls for investigation of possible genocide in Gaza

Pope approves simplified rites for papal funeral, burial

Pope says he'll canonize Acutis, Frassati, host meeting on child's rights

Pope calls for investigation of possible genocide in Gaza

Nov. 22 2024
CINDY WOODEN, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis said the international community should investigate whether Israel's military actions in Gaza constitute genocide. "According...

Catholic groups merge events for giant pro-life youth rally before March for Life

Nov. 22 2024
ZOEY MARAIST, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- Before joining other pro-life advocates at the March for Life in Washington, Shannon Allen spent an evening with thousands of other teens....

UPDATE: How will JD Vance's newly found Catholic faith affect his vice presidential role?

Nov. 22 2024
KIMBERLEY HEATHERINGTON, OSV NEWS

(OSV News) -- Vice President-elect JD Vance's wife, Usha, a practicing Hindu, once told him that she believed his 2019 conversion to Catholicism "was good...

Pope approves simplified rites for papal funeral, burial

Nov. 22 2024
CINDY WOODEN, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis, who will celebrate his 88th birthday in December, has approved simplified liturgical rites for the death of a pontiff. His...

Pope says he'll canonize Acutis, Frassati, host meeting on child's rights

Nov. 22 2024
CAROL GLATZ, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis announced that he will canonize Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati next year and that the Vatican will...

Notre Dame de Paris returns to her cathedral with thousands of Parisians walking her home

Nov. 22 2024
CAROLINE DE SURY, OSV NEWS

PARIS (OSV News) -- Miraculously missed by burning beams falling from the roof on April 15, 2019, and waiting for five years to make it back to Notre Dame...

St. John's Seminary marks 140 years with MFA gala

Nov. 22 2024
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

BOSTON -- "Do you know him?" Archbishop Richard Henning asked Bishop Cristiano Barbosa as they observed the room at the 140th anniversary gala for St....

Black Catholic community presents annual awards for service

Nov. 22 2024
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

DORCHESTER -- Robert Credle likes to say that before Roxbury was ghettoized, and before it was gentrified, he was there. The Credles were the third Black...

Archbishop Henning thanks Appeal donors at cathedral Mass

Nov. 22 2024
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

BOSTON -- Archbishop Richard Henning celebrated his first Catholic Appeal Mass of Appreciation at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Nov. 18. The annual...

Churches urged to be on alert after recent arson fires

Nov. 15 2024
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

BRAINTREE -- After two arson attacks targeted Catholic churches in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island four days apart, the Archdiocese of Boston...

Cheverus profiles: Anne and Matt O'Neil of St. Anne Parish, Readville

Nov. 15 2024
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

READVILLE -- Matt O'Neil has often heard that God gives his hardest battles to his toughest soldiers. He wasn't sure he was strong enough for this. In...

Forming the Future: Our Lady's Academy, Waltham, integrates AI and robotics into student learning

Nov. 15 2024
WES CIPOLLA PILOT STAFF

WALTHAM -- "JESUS is like a computer," explains a series of posters in the computer lab of Our Lady's Academy in Waltham. "He ENTERs your life, SCANs...

Fieles de Raleigh se esfuerzan por acompañar a trabajadores agrícolas migrantes

Sep. 8 2024
MARIA-PIA NEGRO CHIN, OSV NEWS

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Compartan el Evangelio con alegría, dice el Papa a los trabajadores eclesiásticos de Indonesia

Sep. 8 2024
POR CINDY WOODEN, CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

YAKARTA, Indonesia (CNS) -- La llamada cristiana a compartir el Evangelio no consiste en tratar de ganar conversos a toda costa, sino en vivir de una manera...