Students around the world now have a chance to be an explorer-restorer of the 519-year-old basilica thanks to a new online educational opportunity created by Minecraft Education, Microsoft’s game-based learning platform, and with the help of St. Peter’s Basilica and Vatican City State.

The traditional “Lenten Conferences” resumed at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this Lenten season, for the first time since the fire of April 15, 2019.

The military junta in Myanmar’s strife-torn Kachin state allegedly burned down a Catholic cathedral dedicated to St. Patrick on the eve of the revered saint’s feast.

Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, has filed a motion for the return of the Eucharist, a consecrated host and consecrated wine a Satanic group claims to have stolen, with the archbishop stating that all sacred species are the property of the Catholic Church.

Baltimore-based CRS said the “termination of dozens of CRS’ life-saving projects,” including 11 operating under humanitarian waivers, “will permanently cut off critical aid to more than 20 million people worldwide.”

An 80-year-old former priest of the Diocese of Wilmington and a 57-year-old ex-teacher in local Catholic schools have been charged with sexual abuse of a minor in the mid-1990s, the Delaware attorney general announced in a news release March 17.

Long before Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor raised her famous peacocks as an adult in rural Georgia, she kept canaries and chickens at 207 E. Charlton St., her childhood home in Savannah.

Marquette University in Milwaukee received recently a $7.5 million gift to endow its Institute for Natural Family Planning within the College of Nursing. The Jesuit university revealed Feb. 27 the gift came from the Richard L. Boland Love for Life Foundation, Inc., also known as the Betty and Dick Boland Foundation.

Pope Francis no longer needs the “noninvasive mechanical ventilation” he has used most nights since experiencing a breathing “crisis” Feb. 28, his doctors reported in a bulletin released by the Vatican press office March 19.

As President Donald Trump held new talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin March 18, followed by a call with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine March 19, bishops across Europe expressed alarm at current geopolitical developments.