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In this Feb. 21, 1946, file photo, students at St. Augustine School in Washington, led by the Oblate Sisters of Providence, participate in Negro History Week; the precursor to Black History Month, observed each February. (CNS photo/courtesy Oblate Sisters of Providence)

Black history is Catholic history

Shannen Dee Williams
February 6, 2020
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As we mark this 94th annual celebration of black history during February, I encourage all Catholics interested in justice, reconciliation and peace to commit to learning about the central place of black people in the church’s long and complex history.

Mercy Sister Mary Scullion meets with Rep. Dwight Evans, D-Pa., Feb. 4, 2020, prior to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address. Evans invited Sister Scullion, co-founder of Project HOME, which helps the homeless in Philadelphia, as his guest to the president's address in the Capitol. (CNS photo/courtesy Emmanuel Sofolawe)

Sister who works with Philadelphia homeless attends State of the Union

Carol Zimmermann
February 6, 2020
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Mercy Sister Mary Scullion, co-founder and executive director of Project HOME, an organization that helps the homeless in Philadelphia, was one of the many guests who attended the Feb. 4 State of the Union, which she hoped would draw attention to homelessness and inspire federal aid to alleviate it.

Migrants from Central America trying to reach the United States react as police approach them near Frontera Hidalgo, Mexico, Jan. 21, 2020. At least 138 Salvadorans have been murdered after being deported back to country from the United States, according to a report released Feb. 5 from Human Rights Watch. (CNS photo/Andres Martinez Casares, Reuters)

Human Rights Watch says deportees killed after return to El Salvador

David Agren
February 6, 2020
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At least 138 Salvadorans have been murdered after being sent back to their violent Central American country from the United States, according to a report from Human Rights Watch.

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address Feb. 4, 2020, at the Capitol in Washington. (CNS photo/Leah Mills, pool via Reuters)

Trump highlights pro-life, school choice issues in State of the Union

Julie Asher
February 5, 2020
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Less than two weeks after pro-life leaders welcomed President Donald Trump to the speakers’ platform at the Jan. 24 March for Life on the National Mall, these leaders were praising a call he issued in his State of the Union address Feb. 4 that Congress immediately ban late-term abortion.

Part of a cover is seen of the book "San Giovanni Paolo Magno" (St. John Paul the Great), by Father Luigi Maria Epicoco with Pope Francis, whom the priest interviewed about St. John Paul II. The book was written to mark the 100th anniversary of St. John Paul's birth, May 18, 1920. It will be released by Edizioni San Paolo Feb. 11, 2020. (CNS photo/Edizioni San Paolo)

‘He was a great,’ Pope Francis says of St. John Paul II

Cindy Wooden
February 5, 2020
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St. John Paul II taught the world that truly great faith and holiness dwell in “the normality of a person who lives in profound communion with Christ,” Pope Francis said in a new book.

Mary Higgins Clark is seen in this 2011 file photo during the annual St. Patrick's Day Mass in New York City. She died of natural causes in Naples, Florida, Jan. 31. She was 92. The author of more than 50 novels is remembered for the way she portrayed courageous Catholic heroines in the bulk of her fiction. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Best-selling author formed enduring bond with worldwide readership

Mike Mastromatteo
February 3, 2020
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Mary Higgins Clark, known as the “queen of suspense” to her millions of readers throughout the world, died of natural causes in Naples, Florida, Jan. 31. She was 92.

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