8+ hour, 59+ min ago   (1409+ words) Bishop Robert Boxie III sat down with Catholic News Service in Rome on Sept. 7 and answered a question that American Catholics have spent decades tiptoeing around: why does the Church in the United States have so few Black bishops? “The…...

15+ hour, 33+ min ago   (1495+ words) I apologize for adding one more 9/11 story after closing the series last night. Over five days I wrote about the end of my childhood, Welles Crowther, Mayor Mamdani’s invitation to St. Patrick’s, Father Mychal Judge, the memorial Mass that Trump…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1215+ words) I was honored to be inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Thursday evening for the Memorial Mass marking twenty-five years since September 11, which Archbishop Ronald Hicks celebrated for the families of the dead, the uniformed services, and the civic leaders of…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1325+ words) According to three independent sources, Mayor Zohran Mamdani will attend the Archdiocese of New York’s 25th-anniversary Mass for the victims of September 11 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Thursday evening, along with the reception connected to it. Archbishop Ronald Hicks will…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1082+ words) Donald Trump presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the family of Welles Crowther on Tuesday, standing on the Ellipse beside a 21-foot steel beam pulled from the South Tower, with Welles’s mother, Alison, and his sister Paige accepting on…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1230+ words) The pope clearly disagrees. Four months earlier, on May 11, he told a Vatican colloquium on compassion and empathy that the two “are not something additional or optional, but are a call from God to reflect his goodness in our daily…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1045+ words) Cardinal Robert McElroy stood in the pulpit of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on Sunday, Sept. 6, and told a congregation of union members and parishioners that “no one intrinsically owns anything.” The Catholic Labor Network and the Archdiocese…...