by Joe Bukuras Boston, Mass., Sep 3, 2023 / 06:00 am Pat Sajak, the longtime host of the popular television game show “Wheel of Fortune,” will be retiring after this upcoming season. After more than 40 years in that role, Sajak is like a member of the family for the …

By Sr. Joan L. Roccasalvo, C.S.J. Apr 24, 2013 In 1955, Pope Pius XII designated May 1st as the feast of St. Joseph the Worker to counter two other celebrations in the Northern Hemisphere: the pagan and neo-pagan festivities ushering in spring and International Workers’ Day for unions, workers, and socialists. …

By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 1, 2023 / 10:15 am A group that is leading a ballot initiative to establish abortion rights in the Ohio Constitution sued state officials this week after a board finalized ballot language that uses the term “unborn child” rather than the group’s preference to …

By Tina Dennelly Long Island, New York, Aug 31, 2023 / 09:25 am “Sheen is clean.” That’s the message from Monsignor Jason Gray, executive director of the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation, regarding the status of the cause for beatification of “America’s bishop,” the late televangelist Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. “I …

By Daniel Payne Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 31, 2023 / 11:55 am Pope Francis this week confirmed the appointment of a Pittsburgh priest as the bishop of a Byzantine Catholic eparchy serving several midwestern U.S. states, the Vatican announced Thursday. In its regular update of resignations and appointments, the Holy See …

By Hannah Brockhaus Rome Newsroom, Aug 31, 2023 / 12:30 pm An archdiocese in Poland is encouraging Catholics to join them in nine days of prayer leading up to the beatification of a family martyred by the Nazis in 1944. Józef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children were executed by …

By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 28, 2023 / 15:15 pm President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign launched a new pro-abortion ad in several swing states, which some pro-life groups are calling extreme. The ad, called “These Guys,” launched Friday and will run for two weeks in seven key states. It targets …

By Isabel Barry Chicago, Ill., Aug 27, 2023 / 18:42 pm Hundreds of thousands of young adults filled the streets of Lisbon, Portugal, for the 2023 World Youth Day in early August — gathering together for Mass, eucharistic adoration, prayer, and fellowship. The event was powerful and moving, but for some Catholics …

By Peter Pinedo Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 29, 2023 / 12:22 pm Jean Dolores Schmidt, a Catholic religious sister known to many in the sports world simply as “Sister Jean,” threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Chicago Cubs baseball game on Monday night. The occasion, already made special by …

By Hannah Brockhaus Rome Newsroom, Aug 28, 2023 / 09:36 am In a conversation with Jesuits in Portugal at the beginning of August, Pope Francis commented on a “climate of closure” in the United States, which he said sometimes replaces faith with ideology. “You say you have felt a climate of …