at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. Credit: Madalaine Elhabbal/CNA Several prominent members of law enforcement participated in the Mass, including Chief John Thomas Manger of the U ...

When the legendary St. Teresa of Ávila needed spiritual counsel during the Spanish Inquisition, she did not turn to St. John of the Cross or St. Peter of Alcántara, but to the lesser-known St ...

People across western Washington are celebrating the new pope. A church serving approximately 500 families in Tacoma was named after Saint Leo, the first pope with that name. St. Leo Catholic ...

When this year’s crop of seniors first arrived to play for Northwest Washington baseball power St. John’s, some were taken aback. The attention to detail, the intensity of offseason workouts ...

The St. John's Red Storm are fresh off a historic season with head coach Rick Pitino at the helm. Pitino led St. John's to the NCAA Tournament, ranked as a No. 2 seed. The Red Storm began March ...

Rick Pitino has put St. John’s basketball back on the national map in just two seasons at the helm. This past year, he led the Red Storm to their first Big East regular season and tournament ...

Good Counsel girls’ lacrosse coach Michael Haight had four points he wanted to emphasize before his team’s Washington Catholic ... Facing St. John’s in the final for a second straight ...

The Washington law forces priests to choose between civil law and violating their faith as practiced for millennia. The Catholic Church considers ... including St. John Nepomuk, who was martyred ...

The church building’s cornerstone dates from 1897. Washington has been Shiloh’s pastor for 12 years. About 30 firefighters responded to the blaze when trucks were dispatched about 6:17 p.m ...

The Catholic Church announced that priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement.

WASHINGTON – Across the nation’s capital, Catholics joyously welcomed the news of the church’s first U.S.-born pope. “I never thought in my lifetime I would see an American pope,” said ...