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Kentucky bishop dismisses priests who derided novus ordo Mass as ‘irrelevant’

Jan 25, 2024

By Daniel Payne

Covington Bishop John Iffert announced his decision in a letter to members of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Park... Read more

Bishop-elect John Iffert of Covington, Kentucky.

Pope Francis names Illinois priest to lead Covington diocese in Kentucky

Jul 13, 2021

By Hannah Brockhaus

Bishop-elect John C. Iffert succeeds Bishop Roger J. Foys. Read more

Students and other participants hold signs at the 2020 March for Life in Washington, DC, on Jan. 24, 2020.

1 killed after car crashes into bus of Covington Catholic students heading home from March for Life

Jan 25, 2020

One person is dead and others are injured after an oncoming car struck a charter bus carrying Covington Catholic students... Read more

Bishop Roger Foys of Covington.

Covington bishop apologizes to Covington Catholic students

Jan 25, 2019

By Christine Rousselle

Bishop Roger Foys of Covington issued an apology Friday for a Jan. 19 diocesan statement that condemned the actions of... Read more

Bishop Roger Foys of Covington.

The evolving response of the Church in Kentucky to the Covington Catholic incident

Jan 23, 2019

How Kentucky's Catholic leaders have responded to a situation involving Covington Catholic High School students.  Read more

Participants at the 2019 March for Life.

After Covington Catholic students caught in social media maelstrom, fuller picture emerges

Jan 21, 2019

A wave of media attention engulfed this weekend a group of students who attended last week’s annual March for Life... Read more

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A student workshop at The College of St. Joseph the Worker.

West Virginia awards Catholic ‘trade college’ $5 million grant for expansion

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Homelessness rose 18% in the past year, HUD report shows

Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick arrives at Massachusetts’ Dedham District Courthouse for his arraignment on Sept. 3, 2021.

Judge says Wisconsin trial against McCarrick will remain suspended until his death

The entry of the cross into the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth on Dec. 29, 2024, marks the opening of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope in the Holy Land. The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, crossed the threshold of the basilica carrying the jubilee cross accompanied by Archbishop Moussa Hage, Maronite archbishop of Haifa and the Holy Land (on his right), and Archbishop Youssef Matta, Greek Catholic (Melkite) archbishop of Acre, Haifa, Nazareth, and Galilee (on his left).

PHOTOS: Cardinal Pizzaballa opens 2025 Jubilee Year in Holy Land

“What we have to aspire to is to be saints,” the relatives of the late Belgian King Baudouin recall him urging.

Relatives of Belgian King Baudouin: ‘His whole life was a witness to the living Christ’

Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California.

UPDATE: Oakland Diocese denies it used diocesan fund to hide money from abuse victims

Father Lawrence Hecker pleaded guilty this week to kidnapping and raping a teenage boy in the 1970s, heading off a long-delayed trial that launched with an indictment last year. 

Louisiana priest Lawrence Hecker dies in prison after life sentence over rape of teenager

Pope Francis prays during his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct. 9, 2024.

Pope Francis remembers Jimmy Carter’s ‘firm commitment’ to peace, reconciliation

Blessing of a plane at Dublin Airport.

Dublin Airport aircraft blessing: New chaplain continues 77-year Irish Catholic custom

Catholic Land Movement co-founders Andrew Ewell (top left) and Michael Guidice (top right), pictured here on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica.

In Vatican meetings, Catholic Land Movement proclaims faith, family, and farming

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