Ss. Cyril and Methodius Ukrainian Catholic Church

Video messages ahead of the 2026 midterm elections asked voters to approach civic life with prayer, charity, and a commitment to the common good.

Overall, the numbers have grown from 28 seminarians in 2007, 52 in 2020, and 66 this year — the largest single-year class in half a century.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the new office is meant to give chaplains a direct line to the secretary, to bypass red tape from the secular bureaucracy.

Two neighbors objected to the shrine and filed suit. Lawyers for the Missionaries of St. John the Baptist say federal religious liberty protections guarantee their right to construct the shrine.

Karin Öberg holds the Thomas Dudley Cabot Chair in the Natural Sciences at Harvard University and directs the Öberg Astrochemistry Laboratory at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

The Diocese of Ghent in Belgium is contesting an individual’s request to be removed from Church records.

The well-known founder of the Franciscan order is considered one of the strongest Marian devotees in Church history.

The beloved Carmelite nun, patron saint of the missions, and youngest doctor of the Church is celebrated in the universal Church on Oct. 1.

In his first address to the German bishops’ plenary, Archbishop Hubertus van Megen said that no local Church outranks another.

Activities surrounding the anniversary began on Sept. 24 and will run until Oct. 5.