Youth-themed music festival coming to Paoli this Saturday

Last year's Abbey Faith and Music Fest at Daylesford Abbey in Paoli was a success, and this year's bigger event features music, prayer, food and fun on Sept. 19.

Migration crisis needs a continent-wide solution, Euro bishops say

The European Union must adopt a common asylum policy "without delay" because it is unacceptable for refugees to "drown and suffocate" at the fringes of the bloc, said the European bishops.

Help families, recognize goodness, don’t just criticize, cardinal says

A three-week Synod of Bishops to talk in the abstract about Catholic teaching on the family makes no sense to Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna.

Vatican upholds bishop’s refusal to allow transsexual to be godparent

The church teaches that sponsors must live a life of faith that is in keeping with their function as someone who must "seriously assume" responsibility for the development and safeguarding of the grace given at baptism, he said in the statement that was published on the diocese's web site Sept. 1.

Seminary’s music program rises a notch with top directors

St. Charles Seminary's enrollment is booming along with its music program, thanks to the hiring of two of Philadelphia's most respected musicians. The choir now rehearses in a bigger room.

‘Priesthood is countercultural,’ seminarians told as academic year begins

A New York seminary is blending young men from various backgrounds for the purpose of finding common ground while meeting the challenges they'll face on the journey to ordination.

Stephen Colbert, in interview, discusses faith, joy and humor

Stephen Colbert, who took over Sept. 8 as host of CBS’ “Late Show” program, said in an interview for Canada’s Salt + Light Television that his “Colbert Report” character was intended to be a “well­-intentioned, poorly informed, high-­status idiot.”

Three new auxiliary bishops ordained for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles

Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, together with Chicago Archbishop Blase J. Cupich and retired Auxiliary Bishop Joseph M. Sartoris of Los Angeles, ordained Bishops Robert E. Barron, Joseph V. Brennan and David G. O'Connell to the episcopacy Sept. 8 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

Catholic colleges gear up for U.S. papal visit with special programs, volunteering

The colleges located in the three cities where the pope is visiting -- Washington, New York and Philadelphia -- are particularly pulling out the stops by donating their parking spaces, rescheduling classes and sending groups of students as volunteers to help at papal events.

Nuns on the Bus tour seeks to ‘bridge the divides, transform politics’

At a time when Republican presidential candidates compete with one another in their demands for the federal government to spend less on social programs and to rein in illegal immigration, the sisters will carry a significantly different message on their tour.