By Madalaine Elhabbal Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 2, 2024 / 16:15 pm As the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris prepares to reopen on Dec. 7, U.S. bishops are calling on local American churches to show their solidarity with the Church’s “eldest daughter.” Five years ago, a devastating fire broke out across …

By Madalaine Elhabbal Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 8, 2024 / 16:40 pm The bells of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris have rung for the first time since April 2019, when a devastating fire broke out in the spire and roof of the historic French church. Notre-Dame of Paris passed the major …

By Madalaine Elhabbal Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 17, 2024 / 10:50 am In an Instagram post announcing his conversion to the Catholic faith, former NBA All-Star Gordon Hayward captioned a photo of himself in Rome’s Cathedral of St. Sebastian with the Latin phrase “Nunc Coepi,” or “Now I begin.” And what a beginning …

By Madalaine Elhabbal Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 10, 2024 / 14:20 pm Ethel Kennedy, the wife of the late U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and a mainstay in American politics for decades, died on Thursday at age 96, her family said on Thursday. Kennedy passed away in her sleep on Thursday …