cleaning the yard at St. Philomena’s [Church, used by St. Damien]. They do a wonderful job in keeping Damien's road nice and clean, you know. So everybody has a part in upkeeping Kalaupapa and Kalawao ...

the Catholic Church honors Father Damien, the Belgian priest who was elevated to sainthood for his work with Hansen’s disease patients in the leper colony at Kalaupapa. What’s known as Saint ...

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History’s first American pope recalled that on Saturday the Catholic Church marked a special feast day to pray for the church in China. Pope Benedict XVI had initiated the feast day as part of ...

The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including a “loving care for the least and the rejected.” By Emma Bubola ...

The new pope’s words in support of church unity are pleasing to their ears. Liberals are happy he chose the name Leo, harking back to Leo XIII, the 19th-century founder of Catholic social teaching.

The Catholic Church is not dying from persecution. It is dying from confusion. Under Pope Francis, ambiguity became policy. Tradition was treated as baggage, and doctrine was left to the ...

“Play your own fucking songs!” a bearded man yelled at Eric Church during the country singer’s headlining performance at 2024’s Stagecoach festival. Church, seated on a stool with his ...

The Catholic Church has vowed to excommunicate any priest who follows a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report information about child abuse to law enforcement — even if given in ...

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