Congress first approved PPP funding April 22, 2020, as part of a pandemic relief bill and authorized a second round of PPP loans Dec. 27, 2020.

La hermana misionera Xaviere, Nathalie Becquart, no será la primera mujer subsecretaria de una oficina importante del Vaticano, pero si será la primera mujer con derecho a voto en una reunión del Sínodo de los Obispos.

Because of ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, the pope will celebrate Ash Wednesday Mass at the Vatican rather than the traditional location on the Aventine Hill.

Catholic school enrollment figures for the current school year — significantly impacted by the pandemic — dropped 6.4% or more than 111,000 students from the previous school year, which is the largest single year decline in almost 50 years.

Set in the 1980s, “Minari” (A24), a gentle mix of drama and comedy, explores the immigrant experience from a Korean American perspective.

Her feast day, Feb. 8, is the International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking. 

Recognizing their welcome of and witness to Christ, Pope Francis has approved changing the liturgical feast of St. Martha to include her sister and brother, Mary and Lazarus, on the church’s universal calendar of feast days.

One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix has written a pastoral letter to the faithful aimed at bolstering faith in the Real Presence in the Eucharist.