Father Ryan announces 2023 Hall of Fame class
Inductees include six athletes, one contributor, two teams
Daughters of Isabella award scholarship
Recipient Grace Herrin plans to attend Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville.
Pope Francis baptizes a baby during a Mass in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican in this file photo from Jan. 8, 2023. According to the Vatican's Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2021, the Catholic Church baptized 13.7 million people in 2021, more than 81% of whom were children under the age of 7. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
A host of sacramental statistics: Vatican tracks practice of the faith
The Central Office of Church Statistics keeps track of baptisms, first Communions, confirmations and Catholic marriages reported by dioceses around the world.
Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington, center, arrives with other cardinals for the funeral Mass of Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in this file photo from Jan. 5, 2023. As of June 2, 2023, two-thirds of the members of the College of Cardinals who are under the age of 80 and eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a new pope are cardinals created by Pope Francis. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Pope has named two-thirds of cardinals eligible to elect his successor
After celebrating his 80th birthday, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe is now ineligible
People mourn during a candlelight vigil Oct. 27, 2018, for victims of the shooting that left 11 people dead at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Experts in Jewish-Catholic relations are hailing a plan unveiled May 25, 2023, by the Biden administration to combat antisemitism that comes amid a sharp rise in such incidents. (OSV News photo/John Altdorfer, Reuters)
Catholic-Jewish experts hail new White House strategy to counter antisemitism
‘It is wonderful to see our country stepping forward’
Fiat Integrative Health clinic brings Catholic values to health care
‘It's really beautiful and freeing now to speak freely about faith with patients and coworkers’
