3+ hour, 6+ min ago  (843+ words) For Aidan Watkins, who graduates this year from St. Anselm's Abbey School in Washington, D. C. , an unfortunate turn of events during his freshman year of high school resulted in strengthening his faith, inspiring his participation in a scientific study and even…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1121+ words) It's a common experience for Ash Wednesday Massgoers: The pews are packed with many attendees, many of whom are unfamiliar to regular parishioners. Who are all these people, and why are they there? They want their ashes. Tracking Mass attendance…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1214+ words) (OSV News) " After two gunmen targeted Jewish beachgoers at an event celebrating the first day of Hanukkah in a terror attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach, Pope Leo XIV said he is "deeply saddened" by the attack he called "horrific." In…...

7+ mon, 4+ day ago  (547+ words) A landmark Catholic document, credited with igniting a revolution in Catholic-Jewish relations over the decades, has turned 60. The text was the Catholic Church's first formal denunciation of "hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by…...