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Supreme Knight Carl Anderson highlights Knights’ efforts worldwide
Last year, the Knights gave $185 million in charitable donations and dedicated 76 million volunteer hours. The Knights' insurance arm also provided $1 billion in benefits to members and their families.
‘Crosses for losses’ aim to bring comfort at scenes of mass shootings
Greg Zanis has delivered free of charge more than 26,000 wooden memorials at the site of mass murders and other tragedies across the U.S.
Dayton Catholics see need to spur action from mass shooting
What is going to be the final tipping point that's going to say to us, as people, this really is enough and we are going to do something, and we're going to insist that our Congress does something,
Macau to host new seminary for Asian evangelization
The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples has entrusted management of the Redemptoris Mater College for Evangelization in Asia to the Neocatechumenal Way.
Archbishop Chaput to celebrate Mass in the Extraordinary Form
During his Aug. 11 visit to St. Mary Quasi-Parish in Conshohocken, Archbishop Chaput will preside at a liturgy in the ancient language of the Catholic faith.
Teen who died saving classmates in Colorado school shooting made a Knight
Kendrick Castillo, the 18-year-old hero who charged a shooter at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado, posthumously named a Knight of Columbus Aug. 6 at the organization’s Supreme Convention in Minneapolis.
Archdiocese hosts preview of new RCIA program
The Office for Divine Worship will host an Aug. 22 overview of Credo, a catechetical curriculum developed by the Dominican Friars and the Thomistic Institute. Produced by St. Benedict Press, the video-based instruction includes seven sessions on mystagogy, the final period of adult initiation into the faith.
Women religious build bonds as they work together to assist immigrants
In former Sunday school classrooms filled with blue and green cots, some 270 immigrants from Central America, Haiti and the Congo will take shelter in the facility, a stopover on their way to what they hope is a new life in other parts of the country.
Philippine religious superiors slam government ‘lies’ about church leaders
The Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines appealed to Catholics to "resist the shadow of fear cast over the nation" following government allegations that several church leaders conspired to oust President Rodrigo Duterte.
Inspired by her faith, attorney serves as guide on path to citizenship
Since 2015, Catherine Baggiano of Catholic Social Services' immigration agency has helped some 350 individuals become U.S. citizens -- a mission driven by her deeply held Catholic beliefs.