The Supreme Court's past year will probably be remembered more for the shakeup at the bench than for specific rulings.

2018 will no doubt be remembered as a dark time for the U.S. Catholic Church.

He expressed his remorse in remarks to parishioners a week after the Dec. 8 funeral of Maison Hullibarger, which received extensive media coverage. His remarks were released Dec. 17 by the Detroit Archdiocese along with its own statement of apology.

The vigil Mass on Saturday evening is not a "two-for-one" Mass for both days.

Schools were closed in Butte County from Nov. 8 when the fire started until after Thanksgiving when the fire was contained.

A group that has been advising the U.S. bishops for 50 years on multiple issues chose to speak to the bishops in Baltimore Nov. 13 on just one issue: the clergy sexual abuse crisis itself and ways to move forward from it.

The U.S. bishops, who gathered for a time of prayer at the start of their annual fall meeting in Baltimore, were urged by Catholic women church leaders Nov. 12 to be courageous and work with each other and the laity to move forward from this moment when the church is reeling from abuse allegations.

Saul Rascon Salazar, one of the DACA recipients, said people who don't vote are "throwing away an American privilege."

The nearly 6,000-word article examines allegations of bishops covering up sexual abuse by priests in their dioceses or their own reported sexual misconduct. 

In mid-October when seven Pennsylvania dioceses announced they had been served subpoenas to release confidential files and testimony about allegations of sexual abuse by clergy and other church workers to the federal government, the announcement was big news.