During an Ash Wednesday Mass on Feb. 18 at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Takoma Park for students from Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School, Father Angel Fermin, the pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows, places ...

The 19-year-old captured two silver medals and a bronze, becoming Poland’s first ski jumper to win three medals at a single Winter Olympics. But instead of a flashy celebration, Tomasiak asked for a ...

This year’s Academy Award nominations were announced on Jan. 22. Following, in alphabetical order, are capsule reviews of the 10 films contending for Best Picture. The Oscars ceremony will take place ...

The USCCB Committee for Religious Liberty issued Feb. 17 its “Annual Report on the State of Religious Liberty,” which highlights the legislative actions, executive actions, and U.S. Supreme Court ...

For example, waking up an hour or two before dawn to study Scripture devoutly might be helpful to a young university student, but might be overly taxing and thus spiritually counterproductive to a ...

Lacking heat due to Russia’s targeted attacks on Ukraine’s energy system, Ukrainians must survive as temperatures plunge to -9 degrees Fahrenheit (-23 degrees Celsius), he said, while “over our heads, ...

More than 375 educators and students from 43 girls’ schools across the United States, Canada and Guatemala gathered Feb. 6 at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Maryland, for a ...

St. John the Evangelist eighth-grader John Paul Sloan holds a book of prayers as Cardinal Robert W. McElroy blesses the St. John the Evangelist School building in Silver Spring Fe ...

OSV News: The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) was formally “liquidated” by the Soviet regime in 1946, and only emerged from the underground – where it continued in secret – in 1989. Since that ...

The Holy See “will not participate” in President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” for Gaza, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, said Feb. 17, citing “points that leave us ...

While Catholics in the United States typically receive a visible cross of ashes traced on their foreheads, that is not the universal practice across the Catholic Church. In many parts of the world – ...

As the U.S. prepares to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has encouraged Catholics to participate ...