Two key educators associated with Head Start of Miami-Dade County in Southern Florida and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami worry about an uptick in youngsters with specific developmental disabilities and special needs.

Bishop James V. Johnston of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Missouri, released results of the investigation by medical experts into Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster’s incorruptibility in a press release on the diocesan website Aug. 22, the feast of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

A Catholic pro-life volunteer, twice arrested for praying silently outside an abortion clinic, has received from the U.K. police force who arrested her.

A new Vatican postage stamp celebrates the 40th anniversary of full diplomatic relations between the United States and the Holy See.

The third major trial in the past two years of pro-life activists accused of blockading abortion clinics ended Aug. 20 with the convictions of all seven defendants for violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE Act.

Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., pledged a “commitment to the common good,” in remarks to the Democratic National Convention Aug. 21 as he formally accepted his party’s nomination for vice president.

The cloister of the Dominican friars at the Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva was built in the mid-1500s, and the frescoes are believed to be from the early 1600s, but it is the church next door that draws the visitors.

The largest organization of religious leaders in Ukraine is backing a proposal by that nation’s president — approved by Ukrainian lawmakers Aug. 20 — to ban the Russian Orthodox Church and its affiliates, which have openly supported Russia’s decade-long war on Ukraine.

Three hundred days after the outbreak of war in Gaza, the cardinal at the heart of the Holy Land said interreligious relations have reached a low point.

Catholics in Connecticut are working to help those impacted by what one lawmaker described as “historic, unprecedented flooding” Aug. 18-19 that took two lives and forced hundreds to flee for safety.