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Mugshots of Dr. Wendy and Eddie Osefo after their arrest in Maryland on fraud charges in October 2025. (Carroll County Sheriff's Office) A grand jury returned a 16-count indictment against the popular ...

A virtual event with Boston College on Tuesday, July 22, will celebrate the feast of St. Mary Magdalene and the women who assisted in the earthly ministry of Jesus. The only African-American female ...

If AI takes our jobs, will it take our sense of purpose, too? This Catholic op-ed explores work, vocation and our ultimate ...

The National Black Catholic Men’s Conference will hold its annual gathering Oct. 15-18 in Birmingham, Alabama.

Greek Orthodox Deaconess Angelic Molen serves Communion to a parishioner in May 2024 at St. Nektarios Mission Parish in Harare, Zimbabwe. (St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess) Last fall, I had the ...

President-elect Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, at an election night party in West Palm Beach, Fla., in 2024. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press) We seem to have reached a ...

Bishop-elect Robert Boxie III of Washington, the Catholic chaplain at Howard University, is seen in 2020 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in D.C. (Andrew Biraj/Catholic Standard) Fr Robert ...

A worshipper sings during a Juneteenth event at First Baptist Church in Bardstown, Kentucky, featuring a genealogy presentation with Dan Gediman of Reckoning, Inc., in June 2025. (Sisters of Charity ...

In the narthex of the Belmont Abbey Basilica in North Carolina, at the Benedictine monastery of the same name, sits a stone that holds the water of divine grace and purports to have borne the weight ...

Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria (center left) flanked by fellow cardinals and bishops at the Funeral Mass of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Thursday morning in Rome. (Vatican Media) “It is with ...

My identity as a church musician was forged in the rich crucible of the Black Catholic aesthetic. Growing up during the 1990s and 2000s at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Baton Rouge, ...