While a recent federal government housing statistics report found a 56% decline in homelessness among veterans — from 2009 through 2025 — local Catholic Charities around the country continue the fight to get them housed.
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Pope Leo XIV arrived in Lima Nov. 11 for the much-anticipated final leg of his 12-day apostolic journey to South America, landing in the country that the pope described as “one of my many homes.”
Holy Trinity Seminary celebrated its annual Spes Gregis Benefit, or “Hope of the Flock,” Oct. 24, marking six decades of forming priests while looking ahead to the future.
After the loss of a loved one changed the direction of Erica Whatley’s life, she began a search for God that led her to the Catholic Church, the parishioner of Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Parish in Rockwall said.
There is a cemetery in the town where I grew up, and whenever I return, I like to walk around it. I always stop at two places. The first is the family plot where my grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents are buried. It is also where my parents will eventually be buried. (Sorry, Mom and Dad!) The second is the priest circle, where some of the priests who helped found the local parish are buried. I pray for them all, hoping that these two groups are like my heavenly teammates, praying for me and encouraging me in my own walk on earth.
France’s bishops used their Nov. 3-5 plenary assembly in Lourdes to confront the country’s deepening education crisis, as strikes, school blockades, and political battles over funding have pushed the issue to the forefront of public debate.
Pope Leo XIV traveled to Córdoba in central Argentina, where he recalled the example of Argentina’s saints — who spread the Gospel and tirelessly served peoples in a rugged frontier — while emphasizing the enduring importance of missions.
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass with 2.5 million people in the heart of Buenos Aires on Nov. 9, drawing the largest crowd of his pontificate so far.
As Kraków mourned the victims of a mass shooting Nov. 7 that left six people dead in the city’s historic Main Market Square, Cardinal Grzegorz Rys urged residents not to surrender to fear and hatred, delivering a powerful homily Nov. 8 on suffering, faith, and the hope that death does not have the final word.
Twenty-four men representing 18 parishes in the Diocese of Dallas took an important step in their journey toward the permanent diaconate Oct. 24 during the celebration of a Rite of Admission to Candidacy for Holy Orders by Bishop Edward J. Burns at St. Patrick Catholic Church.