“Never did I ever think that it would be this big.” Deacon Jim Scull was referring to the Million Meal Event, which he and a small team of deacons from the Diocese of San Diego launched five years ago. At the inaugural event, volunteers packed 1 million nutritious meals to distribute to impoverished families across the border in Tijuana and in Africa.
Faith
Flying from Spain’s capital of Madrid to Barcelona June 9, Pope Leo XIV shifted his focus to the deeper and darker existential questions punctuating human life.
The Catholic imagination needs to be reawakened in academic life to nurture leaders who can become “voices for the Catholic Church,” a Catholic scientist advised the nation’s bishops.
As the 2026 FIFA World Cup approaches, Catholic dioceses across the United States are preparing for what many see as both a pastoral opportunity and an unprecedented moment of global encounter.
Pope Leo XIV praised Venerable Fulton J. Sheen on June 1 as “a light of faith, hope, and love” whose radio and television broadcasts brought the Gospel to millions of Americans — including the pope himself as a child.
Farming, even in the best of times, can be a rather precarious vocation. It is dangerous work, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration; it is economically volatile, due to high production costs and fluctuations in market prices; there are climate risks from droughts, floods, and pests.
Highlighting the role of Catholic schools in forming students in faith and academics, the Diocese of Dallas on April 24 named three educators as 2026 Distinguished Educators of the Year at its annual banquet, held at St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Parish.
Caritas Bangladesh and Church-run health centers are building infection prevention awareness while the country grapples with a deadly outbreak of measles that has left more than 330 children dead since mid-March.
For some of the people in the pews at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the visit of 36 relics belonging to martyrs from Mexico’s Cristero War was about more than history.
Everybody in the Church undertakes their own journey into the Catholic faith. Chadwick Dean’s just took 23 years.