One thing that always stands out in the annual marches and rallies in Washington and across the country marking the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision legalizing abortion is the crowd.

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity will be held Jan. 18-25. This year’s theme is "We Will All Be Changed by the Victory of Our Lord Jesus Christ."

The 16th annual World Day for Consecrated Life will be observed in parishes in the U.S. the weekend of Feb. 4-5.

Residents of Greensburg and Indiana and a pregnancy support agency in Connellsville will be honored with 2012 Communities of Salt and Light Awards from Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Greensburg ...

The dream of a new church — which started shortly after the formation of Christ the King Parish in 1999 — is quickly becoming a reality in Leechburg.

The U.S. Supreme Court Jan. 11 upheld the idea that a "ministerial exception" to anti-discrimination laws means the church can’t be sued for firing an employee whom the church classified as a minister.

A letter signed by more than three dozen U.S. religious leaders objects to the specter of religious groups being forced to treat same-sex unions "as if they were marriage."

It took almost two years, but Haitian earthquake survivor Sonya Mallebranche has a place she can call home again.

According to a new study, there are currently 2.18 billion Christians in more than 200 countries around the world, representing nearly a third of the estimated 6.9 billion 2010 global population.

Responding to editors’ requests for a regular sampling of current commentary from around the Catholic press, Catholic News Service presents this editorial titled "Iraq War is over, but what about refugees?" that appeared ...

Pope Benedict XVI named 22 new cardinals, including two from the United States, and announced a consistory for their formal induction into the College of Cardinals Feb. 18.

Two U.S. cardinals and 20 other U.S. bishops could retire because of age this year.

Even though National Vocation Awareness Week — which began Jan. 9 with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord — ended Jan. 14, our readings from last Sunday and this coming Sunday continue the theme of vocations.

As Jan. 22 approaches, we remember the couples, and especially the children, torn apart by elective abortion. Once the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision overturned regulations in all 50 states, abortions annually increased ...

In the New Testament, the term most frequently used to describe a follower of Jesus is disciple. The Gospels offer insights into the relationships Jesus formed with his disciples.

In the 2008 film "Fireproof," Sherwood Pictures — the Albany, Ga., church-based studio that also made the 2006 sports drama "Facing the Giants" — celebrated scripturally guided marital fidelity. With its latest production, "Courageous" ...

Just when you might have forgotten about the family-friendly television series "Touched by an Angel," series star Roma Downey is tweaking the concept.

Too often, "spiritual exercises" and formal prayer practices end up going by the wayside for one reason: We expect them to have effects they don’t have, so we give up on them. Jana Riess found this out from first-hand personal experience ...

As a newspaper reporter, Sherry Boas made her living telling other people’s stories. Today, the home-schooling mother of four adopted children is telling her own.

St. John the Evangelist Regional Catholic School recently received a gift from the heart and for the heart.

"Hey freak." "Loser!" These are merely a few of the hurtful messages featured in a tough-to-watch video titled "Joe’s Story," which chronicles the torment an adolescent boy suffers at the hands of his classmates’ abuse of social media.

Gospel reading: Mk 1:14-20

Gospel reading: Mk 1:21-28

About a year ago when news was released about the Philadelphia abortion clinic of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, words like "house of horrors," "shocking," "murder" and "intentional killing of babies" graced the headlines. The stories told of ...

The church has many prayers, all of them beautiful. Here are my four favorite prayers.

Are you stupid? That may be a question Facebook should consider adding to its application process, especially after some teens were incriminated by their social network activities.