Tennessee

Dioceses close schools as they assess damage and prepare to help those affected by one of the most powerful storms to hit the continental U.S. since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

20 people died and hundreds of homes were damaged or destroyed after record-breaking rainfall of as much as 18 inches in 24 hours.

Distinctly Catholic: President Biden's infrastructure bill and his American Rescue Plan represent a repudiation of Reaganomics, and the introduction of a new kind of social policy we should call Fratelli Tutti economics.

Many religious leaders — some admired worldwide, others beloved only locally — died in 2020. Here are some of them.

Msgr. Jeffrey D. Burrill, a priest of the Diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, is the new general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The reprieve for Pervis Payne was granted "due to the challenges and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic," Gov. Lee said. Payne, a 53-year-old Black man, has always claimed his innocence in the 1987 murder of a mother and daughter, for which he was convicted and sentenced to death.

The nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to serve on the Supreme Court will now go to the full Senate for a confirmation vote, which could take place Oct. 29. Only 51 votes are needed for confirmation.

The federal small-business loan program created in response to the coronavirus pandemic has allowed the Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee, to keep all of its part-time employees on board.