LONDON – Almost 300 Catholic priests, nuns and monks marched on Britain’s Parliament to demand stronger measures to tackle global warming.Read More

A pair of lions are making their mark on the field events in the IAAM B Conference for track and field this season.Read More

Amanda Brown wasn’t planning to make a career out of working with inner-city youths. That was before she began volunteering with the Notre Dame Mission Volunteer Program/Notre Dame AmeriCorps, a public-private initiative that encourages volunteerism among young people.Read More

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious appointed Sister Jane Burke, S.S.N.D., as its next executive director. Sister Jane served for eight years as the provincial leader of the School Sisters of Notre Dame’s Baltimore province, and most recently was the national manager for the Justice for Immigrants Campaign, sponsored by the United States Conference of...Read More

LONDON – The sainthood cause of a 19th-century English cardinal has taken a step forward after the Vatican’s medical commission ruled that there was no natural explanation for the healing of a U.S. deacon who prayed for the cardinal’s intercession.Read More

SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy – Venerating the relics of St. Padre Pio is a reminder that the saints were real men and women who lived for God, said Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes.Read More

Spring really is “bursting out all over.” The death of the winter to the new life of spring is indeed a wonderful time to celebrate the death of Christ and now his new risen life in this Easter Season.Read More

I read with interest Therese Borchard’s opinion piece on why young adults leave the Catholic church (CR, April 17). She disagreed with several explanations, did not offer one of her own but concluded that we should “... be ourselves and stop worrying if we win or lose. Then the right people will come.”Read More