Hurricane Beryl’s strong winds and heavy rains knocked out power to about three million homes and businesses on July 8, and also impacted the offices of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, the agency ready to help in disaster recovery.

The recently published working document for the final gathering of the Synod of Bishops on Synodality focuses on the different relationships in the Church and presents the American faithful with an opportunity to reflect, says the U.S. Bishops’ Conference synod lead.

Close to a foot of rain fell in just under 12 hours in parts of the Greater Houston area as Hurricane Beryl pushed into the southeast Gulf Coast of Texas when it made landfall near Matagorda, Texas, in the early morning hours of July 8.

A Republican Party platform, overwhelmingly approved by a committee on July 8, has softened the party’s language on abortion for the first time in more than four decades.

Marina Frattaroli describes herself as the National Eucharistic Revival’s “first convert,” after a related social media post led her to a website describing the church’s teaching on Jesus’ true presence in the Eucharist.

As she talked with the grieving woman, Jan Pierson believed this was another moment when God had led her to where he wanted her to be — which is exactly why the 69-year-old Indiana woman has looked past the challenges and has embraced her once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take part in the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage.

President Joe Biden said he had a “bad night” due to a cold in his first televised interview since his performance at a debate raised concerns about his physical and mental ability heading into the general election campaign.

A Catholic organization that advocates against the death penalty is calling for an end to the “broken system of capital punishment” to ensure innocent people aren’t executed in the future following the 200th death row exoneration in the United States since 1973.