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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Mim Scholle was reading an advertisement for a parish women’s group one day when she noticed something strange.
Violence bookended both the beginning and end of Blessed Stanley Rother’s 46 years of life: Born in 1935 — during the fury of a Great Depression-era Oklahoma dust storm — the missionary pastor died in 1981, shot by masked assailants in the midst of Guatemala’s almost four-decade civil war.
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities expressed gratitude Oct. 27 “for all those who work to provide necessary resources to women, babies, and families during pregnancy and beyond.”
Key Catholic organizations, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, sent a joint letter to Congress calling a recent Department of Justice guidance lowering the threshold for institutionalizing persons with disabilities “deeply troubling.”
Artificial intelligence, migration, and signs of Church renewal are expected to be on the agenda when the nation’s Catholic bishops hold their annual fall meeting next month.
Shortly after Pope Leo XIV announced he will undergo surgery to remove a lung nodule, Catholic bishops, clergy, religious, and other faithful in the U.S. and Canada offered their promise of prayers for his recovery.
As the global community marks World Mental Health Day Oct. 10, the U.S. Catholic bishops have renewed their ongoing commitment to address an issue the Vatican has named an “urgent pastoral challenge.”
Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, urged the faithful to mark Respect Life Month with prayer, deeper reflection, and action.
The University of Notre Dame was consecrated for the first time to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Sept. 25 following an evening Mass celebrated by Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend at the Indiana institution.