By Gigi Duncan Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 2, 2024 / 06:00 am While parish closures and consolidations have made headlines across the United States, a lively community of devout Catholics dedicated to deepening their faith has flourished in the South, particularly in South Carolina. “Being in the Bible Belt, or a …

by Courtney Mares Vatican City, Feb 22, 2022 / 05:05 am Pope Francis has appointed Father Jacques Fabre as the new Catholic bishop of Charleston, South Carolina. The Vatican announced the 66-year-old priest’s appointment on Feb. 22. Fabre was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In the early 1990s, he was a chaplain at …

CNA Staff, Feb 19, 2021 / 07:01 pm MT (CNA).- A federal judge has temporarily blocked South Carolina’s heartbeat-based abortion ban just days after its passage, in response to court filings from Planned Parenthood. However, the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office has argued that Planned Parenthood can’t be sure the …

By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON  — Lisa Sharon Harper, director of organizing for the Sojourners community in Washington, defined “America’s original sin” as “racial hierarchy” at a June 15 conference on solidarity and faith issues in the nation’s capital. Two days later, that sin reappeared in a shocking …