VATICAN CITY - When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected in 2013 as Pope Francis, he was a near total Vatican outsider. He ...

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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a Catholic virtual charter school’s bid to become the nation’s ...

Jim Sexton felt at home at Evergreen Park, but the call of the Catholic League was too much for him to ignore. Sexton, who was recently announced as the head basketball coach at St. Rita, is excited ...

Mass of Christian Burial will be 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at St. Boniface Catholic Church, Cold Spring for Annella (Nell) Marie Bechtold, age 77, who passed away on Saturday, April 26, 2025 ...

In one of his final announcements before his death, Pope Francis granted Catalonian architect Antoni Gaudí the title of ...

St. Elizabeth’s Guild will honor 11 community activists at its 53rd annual Volunteer Activists Awards Luncheon on May 2 in ...