LOS ANGELES — As Pope Leo XIV proclaimed 2026 as the Jubilee Year of St. Francis, Archbishop José H. Gomez has declared 15 ...

‘Clare’s Law helped me find out the truth’. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going on in the West Midlands. Those are the words of a domestic abuse survivor ...

The Capuchin Franciscan friars of the Province of St. Mary mourn the death of their brother, Fr. Frederick Nickle, OFM Cap., who passed from this life on March 23, 2026, in the Bronx, N.Y., at the age ...

PLAIN TWP. − The Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration will have their annual Agnus Dei/Easter Bread Sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 28 at Sancta Clara Monastery at ...

Every few years, Washington rediscovers fraud. A viral clip of someone misusing food stamps. A headline about child care providers in Minnesota. A politician promising to crack down on “fraud and ...

I don’t often hear the name Claire, so when I do, I light up. And when it’s around Easter, I light up even more. Such was the case in spring of 2020 when I became aware of a video of a little girl and ...

The Poor Clares are up against a powerful opponent with City Hall’s ear, the director of the Arnold Arboretum. The Poor Clares, a group of cloistered nuns who lived for decades in quiet corner of ...

WESTWOOD — A brass bell rang out on a recent midwinter afternoon at the Monastery of St. Clare, calling together the property’s 11 nuns. Their monastic schedule starts at 6:15 a.m. with morning prayer ...

A man is charged with stealing more than $100,000 from Little Sisters of the Poor in Pittsburgh, ordering steaks and seafood that police said he never served to the nursing home's residents.

Middle-class families don’t feel as secure as they once did. It isn’t because the poverty line is “really” $140,000, as Michael Green claimed in a viral essay last year. Yet the impoverished feeling ...

GOSHEN — The Goshen College Theater Department will present “Poor Clare” by Chaira Atik as its spring mainstage production. “‘Poor Clare’ challenges all of us, including myself, to examine how our ...

SMART TERRACED houses line Lex Street in West Philadelphia. A few wind chimes dangle from white porticos. The tidy, suburban vibe is a stark change from a few decades ago. In 2000 the neighbourhood ...