• Rosary services highlight important events in black Catholic history

    In honor of Black Catholic History Month, the Diocese of Rochester will host special rosary services in November to commemorate the people and events important to Catholics of African...

    <p>Mary Wingo performs on the first night of the Black Catholic Revival at Immaculate Conception Church Nov. 11, 2015. </p>

    Mary Wingo performs on the first night of the Black Catholic Revival at Immaculate Conception Church Nov. 11, 2015.
  • Masses, trips, watch parties to mark Cardinal Newman's canonization

    College Catholic student centers and a Catholic university named after the upcoming saint, Blessed John Henry Newman plan to celebrate his Oct. 13 canonization.

    A statue of Blessed John Henry Newman is seen Feb. 5, 2018, on the campus of Newman University in Wichita, Kan.

    A statue of Blessed John Henry Newman is seen Feb. 5, 2018, on the campus of Newman University in Wichita, Kan. (CNS photo courtesy Newman University)
  • Priests active in talks about aliens

    VATICAN CITY — More than 2 million people RSVP’d to a recent social media invitation to “storm” Area 51 in Nevada, in the hope of discovering whether alien life or spacecraft may be...

    <p>Jesuit Father Jos&#0233; Funes (left), then-director of the Vatican Observatory, speaks at a press conference on astrobiology at the Vatican in 2009. </p>

    Jesuit Father José Funes (left), then-director of the Vatican Observatory, speaks at a press conference on astrobiology at the Vatican in 2009. (CNS photo by Paul Haring)

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