Catholic Standard

7 articles in this series

2020 Catholic Schools Week

In January 2020, Catholic Schools across the Archdiocese of Washington are celebrating Catholic Schools Week, highlighting...

Visiting Mother Catherine Academy, archbishop encourages student to follow saint's example

Jan 28

St. Mary’s School of Piscataway celebrates its history and future as archbishop blesses new Media Center there

Jan 16

Latest

Speakers say God calls people to build community, proclaim Gospel of life

According to Sister Bethany Madonna, vocations director for the Sisters of Life, one’s circumstances change, yet life is a...

Jan 29

Panelists outline best practices for building bridges in faith communities

Jan 29

Big hits, little-seen gems among 2019’s best movies and family films

Jan 29

Archbishop opens Catholic Schools Week with Mass at St. Andrew Apostle

To begin Catholic Schools Week 2020, Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory celebrated Mass Jan. 26 at St. Andrew Apostle Parish,...

Jan 27

Bryant relied on Catholic faith to see him through tough personal times

CALABASAS, Calif. (CNS) -- As the world mourned the loss of basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and...

Jan 27

DeMatha’s Morgan Wootten remembered as legendary basketball coach and teacher who helped students excel

While a student at St. Margaret’s School in Seat Pleasant, Maryland, during the late 1970s, Paul-Sean Gray remembers watching a...

Jan 27

President Trump's appearance as March for Life speaker prompts mixed opinions

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The University of Notre Dame's O. Carter Snead said it was "a good thing when the president of the United...

Young people encouraged to ‘abandon everything’ to God as witnesses to life at annual Youth Rally and Mass for Life

Marching ‘an authentic act of patriotism,’ Archbishop Broglio says

Voices

A game plan for life, from a legendary coach and teacher

The dollars and sense of our Catholic tithing

Sunday Scripture reading, Jan. 26: A great light

Question corner: Catholic Church and Alpha movement/ Church and women deacons

Galleries

Photo gallery: Youth Rally and Mass for Life

About 18,000 teens and young adults from throughout the Washington area, from across the country and from around the world participated in the Archdiocese of Washington's annual Youth Rally and...

Photo gallery: Archbishop Gregory's Mass honors life and legacy of Dr. King

Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory celebrated the Archdiocese of Washington's annual Mass on Jan. 18 honoring the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. More than 300 people attended...

Scenes from Walk with Mary

To honor Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patroness of the Americas, Catholics joined the Walk with Mary procession on Dec. 14 beginning at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart in Washington and then...

Thanksgiving around the Archdiocese of Washington

Thanksgiving week in 2019 unfolded throughout the Archdiocese of Washington through prayers and charitable outreach. Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory celebrated a Thanksgiving Mass at St....

Photo essay: Mission Of Mercy dental clinic

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington, the University of Maryland School of Public Health and the Maryland State Dental Association Foundation jointly hosted The Mid-Maryland Mission...

Back to school in St Mary's School of Piscataway, MD

St. Mary's School of Piscataway in Clinton, Maryland, opened its doors on Aug. 27 for its first day of school. (CS photos/Andrew Biraj)

Archbishop Gregory celebrates Mass at St. Thomas More Church in Washington, D.C

Photo gallery: Black Catholics celebrate Archbishop Lyke Conference

About 370 people from 32 dioceses across the United States participated in the July 2-6 Archbishop Lyke Conference held at National Harbor, Maryland, to celebrate the gifts that Black Catholics...

Catholic school students welcome Archbishop Gregory

After Archbishop Wilton Gregory was announced as the new archbishop of Washington, one of the first things he did was visit St. Anthony Catholic School in Washington to meet the students there....

Photo gallery: Archbishop Gregory baptizes baby during Mass at St. John the Baptist Parish in Silver Spring

Local

St. Mary's County celebrates unity of Catholic schools in prelude to Catholic Schools Week

In a prelude celebration of Catholic Schools Week with Catholic schools in St. Mary’s County, Washington Archbishop Wilton...

For St. Thomas More principal, college and heaven are goals for his young scholars

Editor's notebook: A Catholic school worth celebrating, and saving

Faith came in first place for DeMatha's Hall of Fame Coach Morgan Wootten

US & World

Pope Francis ‘has our backs’ on pro-life cause, says archbishop

Pope Francis “has our backs” in the pro-life cause, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, said to applause in...

Pope, Pence meet at the Vatican

Dominican Sisters continue to serve after earthquake ruins motherhouse in Puerto Rico

Archbishop Chaput says successor is ‘exactly the man our Church needs’

Faith

Photo gallery: Archbishop Gregory's Mass honors life and legacy of Dr. King

Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory celebrated the Archdiocese of Washington's annual Mass on Jan. 18 honoring the life and...

Hospitality is an important ecumenical virtue, pope says

Jan 23

Baptism is first step on path of humility, pope says

Jan 14

Catholic teens reflect on drawing closer to Christ in 2020

Jan 3

Culture