Dan Morris-Young

The Field Hospital: Catholic Charities visits immigrant detention center, Catholics following court battle of deported mother of four, Scam artists target parishes; Grassroots awareness campaigns for those suffering from mental illness

A leading expert on pastoral theology has underscored that the Catholic Church must quickly and effectively engage young Catholics through dialogue, awareness, listening, respect, humility, patience and creativity — or its future looks dim.

The Field Hospital: Canadian couple volunteers at prison together; Catholic laughs raise money for homeless; first US-born Hmong-American priest; immigration talk at CLINIC gathering.

With the new academic year less than two months away, employees at four high schools owned and operated by the San Francisco archdiocese still have no contract. The archdiocese insists there is no stalemate, but no new bargaining session has been scheduled. 

An alliance of groups in San Francisco are calling upon mayoral candidates to change a policy so that pregnant women can access public housing in their first trimester, rather than their third.

Rita Chairez, 57, knows the hearts and minds of the incarcerated as well as anyone can. For six years she has worked with imprisoned people through the Los Angeles Archdiocese's Office of Restorative Justice and recently became program coordinator of a non-profit providing support for persons impacted by homicide.

The Field Hospital: Jesuit volunteers "ruined for life"; Fort Worth Diocese continues efforts to improve security in wake of Santa Fe High School shooting; Hawaiian parishioners help those forced to flee from lava

The Field Hospital: Ministering to the people behind the scenes of horseracing; Dubuque parishes bring Quran calligraphy to a mosque; "11th step" retreat in Indiana in July; midwives and doulas, two Catholic perspectives on childbirth; recognizing Hmong Catholics' needs in Wisconsin

The Field Hospital: Dolores Mission Church in the Boyle Heights community of Los Angeles is probably best known as the place where Fr. Gregory Boyle's Homeboy Industries started. The small Jesuit parish, however, has been doing more for the past 30 years than reaching out to people in gangs. The parish's unofficial motto is: "Just start."

"Hope and Healing" pastoral letter, released by the California Catholic Conference, rejects stigma, stressing that "mental illness is neither a moral failure nor a character defect."

Terms of a negotiated $20 million payment to settle 86 sex abuse claims against the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, Montana, are scheduled to be presented in U.S. Bankruptcy Court May 8.

The Field Hospital: Parishes make efforts to be environmentally conscientious; Volunteers help clean up after Hurricane Maria; California parishes work with organization to help impoverished in Mexico

A parish priest's Facebook post criticizing Billings Catholic Schools for the inclusion of a same-sex couple on a fundraiser planning team sparked an uproar in the Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, Montana.

The Field Hospital: Religious leaders band together to address affordable housing; Pastoral agents in Salvadoran church visit those in need; Annual Lenten Operation Rice Bowl program helps families; Fatal bus accident kills young hockey players

The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests has called on the U.S. bishops to assure that teachings of the Second Vatican Council become the bedrock of U.S. priestly formation programs, as the Vatican calls for revisions in the formation process.

The Field Hospital: Students write letters of support to women who placed children for adoption; Parishioners, clergy celebrate Mass with prison inmates; medical student fights against father's deportation

Memories of Romero: When word of the murder reached him that March day in 1980, Tony Arteaga, now working at Dolores Mission in LA, rushed to where the archbishop's body had been taken.

Memories of Romero: Widely known as Blessed Óscar Romero's "unofficial photographer" for the last two years of the churchman's life, Franciscan Br. Octavio Duran, now 63, was a 21-year-old seminarian in 1977 when he first met the archbishop.

The Field Hospital: Seattle archdiocese hosting annual Mass for persons with special needs; Affordable housing in crisis; Literacy program launches in Arkansas; One priest reaches out to inactive Catholics

The Field Hospital: Change has been "looming for the past 50 years," Jesuit Fr. Allan Figueroa Deck says in an NCR interview. "And the vitality of the church is what's at stake."