VATICAN CITY—Like the ancient Israelites, Christians today also can fall into the temptation of creating their own idols when difficulties and uncertainties arise, Pope Francis said. “To escape precariousness, human nature looks for a ‘do-it-yourself’ […]
GREER—Attendees at a recent Upstate workshop went beyond art appreciation and took brushes in hand to become part of the world of Byzantine iconography. Participants from around the Carolinas gathered in July at St. Rafka […]
COLUMBIA—Vashti Jackson Woodson does not hesitate when asked how she feels about her 100 years of life. “I’m happy about everything!” she said. “My life has always been happy from the beginning up until the […]
PHILADELPHIA—The remains of St. Katharine Drexel, founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, will be transferred in the coming weeks from the crypt under the chapel of St. Elizabeth Convent, the congregation’s Bensalem motherhouse, […]
VATICAN CITY—With more and more people planning their vacations online and sharing their experiences digitally, the tourism industry and tourists themselves should pay more attention to using online forums to encourage respect for the locales […]
NEW ORLEANS—Reynold Verret, president of Xavier University of Louisiana, announced July 31 that the university and its Institute for Black Catholic Studies will become the new hub for the advancement of sainthood causes of African-American […]
VATICAN CITY—Building on the development of Catholic Church teaching against capital punishment, Pope Francis has ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to assert “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is […]
CHARLESTON—When Hurricane Hugo raked a path of destruction through Charleston on Sept. 22, 1989, among the storm’s most visible casualties were the twin steeples of Blessed Sacrament Church. The wind toppled the spires into the […]
AIKEN—Three of Maureen Godbee’s granddaughters wore dresses she made when they received their first holy Communion this spring. Those are visible testaments to their grandmother’s love, and are just a small part of the work […]
WASHINGTON—Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick “will rightly face” a Vatican canonical process regarding sexual abuse allegations against him, but the U.S. Catholic Church must take steps to respond to church leaders’ “moral failures of judgment,” said […]
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