Marianite Sister Ann Lacour said that fellow Sister Suellen Tennyson, who was kidnapped from the convent of her educational and medical mission in Yalgo, Burkina Faso, is now safe and on American soil.

In his homily for a Red Mass in New Orleans, Bishop Robert Barron emphasized the need for religion in an otherwise secular society.

Rocco Buttliere cobbled together 67,000 tiny, plastic Lego pieces to create an improbably realistic 3D replica of Vatican City State.

“There’s no need for us to be at odds,” Archbishop Aymond said of the relationship between the archdiocese and SNAP. “We want the same thing, and reconciliation has happened.”

Priests in Louisiana are discovering that by helping those affected by Hurricane Laura, they are finding renewed purpose in their vocations.

The New Orleans City Council voted unanimously Aug. 20 to rename Jefferson Davis Parkway in honor of Norman C. Francis, former president of Xavier University of Louisiana.

The hospice death of Michael Hickson, a 46-year-old quadriplegic, pricked the conscience of Fordham ethics professor Charlie Camosy.

The basis of the index's measurement is the United Nations' Human Development Report

They stood out because they stood together, employing the wisdom of young parents, in the back of a hotel ballroom packed with 2,800 permanent deacons, their wives and children.

Despite groundbreaking steps the U.S. Catholic Church has taken to prevent the sexual abuse of minors in the past 16 years, a potential "complacency" in following safety protocols could pose a challenge to those hard-won advances.