Kathleen Murphy/CNASister of Mercy JoAnn Persch, a longtime immigrant rights advocate, died on Nov. 14, 2025, at age 91. Sister Persch and Sister Pat Murphy were founding members of the Su Casa Catholic Worker House…
Roughly a third of all Catholic clergy ordained in England and Wales over the past three decades have come from the Anglican Communion, a new report launched Thursday in London shows, giving for the first…
A family grieves their lost baby at a funeral at the crypt at St. Patrick’s Cemetery in New Orleans. Many friends, relatives, and families attended the funeral that day. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Compassionate…
Mia Smothers is among the teens chosen to ask Pope Leo XIV questions at the National Catholic Youth Conference Nov. 21, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry Washington, D.C.…
Michael M. SantiagoA man seeking asylum from Colombia is detained by federal agents as he attends his court hearing in immigration court at the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building on Oct. 27, 2025, in New…
Compassionate Burials for Indigent BabiesA family grieves their lost baby at a funeral at the crypt at St. Patrick’s Cemetery in New Orleans. Many friends, relatives, and families attended the funeral that day. Funerals help…
Jack de Nijs for Anefo Pope Paul VI speaks during the Second Vatican Council as seen from this television screen. COMMENTARY: The declaration of religious freedom shattered the communist claim that there was no sanctuary…
LIGARI, Nigeria — The villagers in northwestern Nigeria were settling in for church service when motorcycle-riding gunmen invaded, shooting at random and seizing at least 62 people, including the pastor and several children. They were marched into…
The statue of Pope Leo in Chiclayo, Peru, is surrounded by some of the people who attended its inauguration and blessing. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Provincial Municipality of Chiclayo ACI Prensa Staff, Nov…
GreenmarsThe SS Edmund Fitzgerald is seen in 1971. FEATURE: Fifty years after the freighter vanished in a November storm, the families left behind — ‘the wives and the sons and the daughters’ — say their…