U.S. Customs and Border Protection is set to break a record for border captures when the fiscal year ends at the end of September, as the total number of apprehensions inched closer to the 2 million mark at the end of July.
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Retired Archbishop Weakland of Milwaukee dies at age 95
Retired Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, who was the ninth archbishop of Milwaukee from 1977 until his retirement in 2002, died overnight at Clement Manor in Greenfield after a long illness, the archdiocese announced Aug. 22. The prelate, who lived at the residence, was 95.
Catholic nurses draw on faith, fellowship to be ‘hands and feet of Christ’
Members of the National Association of Catholic Nurses USA gathered Aug. 2-4 at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa for a world congress that blended spirituality with specifics on best practices in the field.
RADIO INTERVIEW: A practical guide for raising families
Kristen Fisher shares how every person has a deep desire and pattern of preference for either beauty, truth or goodness.
Service is a calling for all, not a select few, pope says
Jesus’ image of entering the kingdom of heaven through a “narrow gate” does not mean that “only a few are destined to go through it” but instead means living “one’s life in love, in service, and in giving oneself as he did,” the pope said during his Sunday Angelus address.
Archbishop William Lori announces clergy appointments, including two deacon retirements
Archbishop William Lori announced clergy appointments for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, including two deacon retirements.
Center begun with CCHD grant helps workers deal with pandemic, #MeToo issues
As the domestic anti-poverty program of the U.S. Catholic bishops, CCHD says one of its central beliefs is “that those who are directly affected by unjust systems and structures have the best insight into knowing how to change them.”
Movie Review: ‘Beast’
A quartet’s initially enjoyable excursion into the wilderness suddenly turns perilous when they run afoul of the predator from whom the movie takes its title.
Monsignor Auer remembered as a steady, loving presence with a sense of fun
Monsignor John J. Auer died Aug. 14. He was 92.
Federal judge rules Baltimore-based CRS must pay health benefits for spouse of gay employee
A U.S. District Court judge in Maryland has ruled that Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ overseas relief and development agency, must offer health care coverage to the spouses of gay employees as long as the employees’ jobs are nonreligious in nature.
Pope ‘deeply saddened’ by Orthodox church fire
Pope Francis offered prayers and condolences to the victims of a fire in an Orthodox Church that took the lives of 41 people — including 18 children — who died in a fire in Egypt’s capital, Cairo.
In predawn raid, Nicaraguan police remove bishop; his whereabouts unknown
Police raided the curia in the predawn hours of Aug. 19 and took Bishop Rolando Álvarez, according to a social media statement from the Diocese of Matagalpa.