It was the eighth annual Peace March at San Francisco's St. Finn Barr School as students paraded through the Sunnyside neighborhood to promote peace, justice and goodwill.
Every day, television headlines are more tiring, the social media scrolling more soulless and popular culture continues its pursuit of "relevance" over actual meaning. It might be time to sink your teeth into written works that actually sought to plumb the depths of humanity and have withstood the test of time.
VATICAN CITY -- If a saint like King David could have been capable of so much sin, what are regular people doing to make sure they can always be attentive and aware of where they are going wrong? Pope Francis asked.
For the Catholic leaders of the cities from the two competing teams in this year's Super Bowl matchup -- San Francisco and Kansas City, Missouri -- it's about food bets on the game's outcome.
Many Catholics praised Father Joseph Pham Minh Cong for fostering Marian devotion among soldiers during the Vietnam War by erecting Marian statues in Kon Tum province.
MADISON, Wis. -- Valley of Our Lady Monastery, a community of Cistercian nuns in Wisconsin, is raising funds for a new monastery complex following a vocations boom.
"Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story" documents the life of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and a "dangerous combination" of traditional Catholic and social and political radical.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- "Martyrdom is the greatest testimony of faith, because it faithfully reproduces Christ, giving his life so that others can have life in abundance" (John10:10), the Episcopal Conference of El Salvador said in preparation for the Jubilee Year of the Martyrs, 40 years after the martyrdom of St. Oscar Arnulfo Romero.
MANILA, Philippines -- Thousands of Filipino Catholics who attended a conference on new evangelization paid tribute to Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the archbishop of Manila.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- In the wake of basketball star and father-of-four-daughters Kobe Bryant’s death, #GirlDad has gone viral on social media with fathers sharing the unique joy of raising daughters. However, in many parts of the world, fewer girls are born than boys today because of sex-selective abortion.
VATICAN CITY -- Warning of the modern tendency to judge human life on the basis of utility rather than dignity, Pope Francis Thursday urged the need to protect the lives of the smallest and most vulnerable.
In a message Jan. 29, 2020 on the Archbishop Riordan High School website, school president Andrew Currier said: “Beginning in the 2020-21 school year, Archbishop Riordan High School will become a coeducational institution. I have requested permission from the archdiocese to move forward, with support from the board of trustees.”
WASHINGTON,, D.C. -- The US Department of State announced Wednesday the designation of 13 former Salvadoran military officials for their involvement in the November 1989 extrajudicial killing of six Jesuit priests and two others.
Just a year after its premiere, the "Mass of the Americas" has reached the hands of Pope Francis, as Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone presented him with a hand-bound copy of the score to the Mass setting on Jan. 27, during his "ad limina" visit to Rome.
A Catholic bishop in the Philippines has encouraged the faithful in his diocese to take Communion by hand instead of by mouth to avoid the possible spread of the dreaded coronavirus.
MEXICO CITY -- More than 50,000 Mexican young people made a pilgrimage Saturday to an iconic monument and shrine to Christ the King, situated atop Cubilete Mountain, over 8,000 feet above sea level in the Guanajuato state of Mexico.
PIERRE, S.D. -- A bill aiming to ban sex-reassignment surgery and puberty-blocking medication for minors in South Dakota cleared a House committee Jan. 22, and is set to be debated in the House of Representatives.