Haitian-born Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old honors student at at Wright State University in Greene County, Ohio, died in an apparent suicide Aug. 31, 2026. He is pictured in an undated photo posted on Instagram. His father said that “everything changed” once his son was fitted with an ankle monitor by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement […]
“Saint Vincent de Paul demonstrated that prayer and social justice are not merely complementary but, in fact, are inseparable,” the pope said during a meeting Aug. 28 with a delegation representing the society’s U.S. branch at the Vatican. “It is therefore my hope that you will continually turn to your heavenly patron in order to […]
A judge in Montreal has found sexual misconduct accusations against Quebec’s Cardinal Marc Ouellet to be unfounded and ordered his accuser to pay him $100,000. The cardinal, retired since April 2024, had been under a cloud of suspicion since Paméla Groleau had accused him of touching her without consent on three occasions between 2008 and […]