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As state contributions wind down toward a 2030 cutoff, the Archdiocese of Olomouc is turning to crowdfunding, investments, and parish co-responsibility to keep its priests paid. OLOMOUC, Czech Republic — More than 6,100 donors in [...]

Spain’s growing Muslim population has led that country’s bishops’ conference to address concurrent pastoral challenges. The standing committee of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference (CEE, by its Spanish acronym) has approved the creation of a department [...]

Roughly 5,000 fans recently filled the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, for ChosenCon. Thousands of fans of the hit series “The Chosen” gathered at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, Feb. [...]

While migration into Mexico from the south and from Mexico to the U.S. has significantly decreased, it hasn’t completely stopped, and challenges still remain for Catholic migrant shelters there. In Mexico’s cities bordering the U.S., [...]

A nonprofit hopes to generate enough small donations to construct a papal tiara for Pope Leo XIV as a gift from American Catholics. A newly established nonprofit launched a crowdfunding effort to construct a papal [...]

The USCCB president called for the protection of innocent lives and asked for the intercession of Mary, Queen of Peace, in his statement Sunday. The escalating conflict in the Middle East has drawn a strong [...]

There is something slightly absurd, and wonderfully human, about awarding a “lifetime achievement” to someone who insists (with a little glint in his eye) that he’s still in the middle of life’s work. At the Actor Awards on March 1, Harrison Ford brought his trademark dryness to the stage while accepting the Life Achievement Award. Read More…

Harrison Ford’s hilarious response to a ‘Lifetime’ award

A few years ago, a photo of an ordinary school assignment appeared online. It was an essay in English, written in neat, almost perfect handwriting. The comments on the post were full of disbelief: “This can’t be handwritten,” “It looks like a printout.” The author was Prakriti Malla, a teenager from Nepal who was a Read More…

Prakriti Malla has “most beautiful handwriting in the world”

In 2022, the National Study of Catholic Priests (NSCP) was released, the largest survey of Catholic priests in 50 years. A new book from the Catholic University of America (CUA) Press, Rebuilding Trust, Clergy Morale in the Wake of Abuse Crisis, invites readers to take a closer look at the results of this survey and Read More…

Book looks at clergy morale after crisis, priests’ lack of trust for bishops

You have to lose yourself in the narrow streets that crisscross the Borgo, a neighborhood close to the Vatican, to come across this little shop. At first glance, it’s a shoemaker like dozens of others in Rome. You walk in, the bell rings, the woody scent of leather fills your nostrils. One detail catches your Read More…

The amazing story of Antonio Arellano, shoemaker to popes