Lucy Grindon

The new Springtide Research Institute report proposes a new model for youth ministers: practicing listening, transparency, integrity, care and expertise, the five dimensions of "relational authority."

The days and nights before Día de los Muertos are usually the busiest time of year for this road that was turned into a center for Mexican culture and commerce in 1930. This year's celebrations are online, but people can still visit ofrendas honoring community members.

Because of the prominence of Greta Thunberg and other young activists, climate activism is often portrayed as a young people's movement. There are a number of elders' groups in the U.S. who believe they have a critical role to play in protecting the planet, and an obligation to do so.

Even first-time voters, at 18, have seen dramatic effects of climate change in their lifetimes

 

The importance of Catholics as part of the U.S. electorate was the subject of an online panel Sept. 17 hosted by the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University in Chicago, with Steven P. Millies, E.J. Dionne Jr., Emma Green and Michael Bayer.

In 2021, 24 Latino leaders from the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois, will start a year of intensive leadership formation. Latinos are underrepresented in church leadership, despite being more than one-third of Catholics in the U.S.

A network of textile mills has produced over 400,000 units of personal protective equipment during the pandemic. Now, a growing number of Catholic organizations are ordering masks through a collective buying opportunity for parishes and schools. 

Ashlie Langlinais was fired in July from her position as head women's basketball coach at St. Dominic Savio High School in Austin, Texas. She said she had to follow the advice she had given to students: advocate.

U.S. Catholic colleges and universities will face unprecedented economic strain and dramatically altered campus life this semester as they impose health and safety measures.

In unusually direct terms for an American church leader, Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, publicly criticized President Donald Trump during a July 31 webinar.

Holy Name closed its doors in late March when the Los Angeles archbishop suspended gatherings to slow the spread of the coronavirus, but as of June 14 it became the first Black Catholic parish in the city to reopen.