Sister Karen Schneider, R.S.M., M.D., was just a fourth-year medical student when she found herself managing a malaria outbreak in a remote village in Guyana.Read More

The pressure was on for Steve Ryan to produce a great best man speech at the wedding of his good friend, Michael Williams. Mr. Williams had been Mr. Ryan’s best man more than a year earlier – delivering a stellar speech that guests remembered as funny, witty and touching.Read More

JERUSALEM – The murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis is a human tragedy that must not be forgotten regardless of one’s religion or nationality, said several Catholic participants in the first International Youth Congress on the Holocaust.Read More

DUBUQUE, Iowa – Franciscan Sister Dorothy Marie Hennessey, a teacher turned activist who made national news at age 88 when she was sentenced to federal prison for trespassing at a Georgia military base, died Jan. 24 at the age of 94.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church supports scientific research aimed at helping people, but the destruction of human embryos or their use as “biological material” demonstrates that a desire to help does not always coincide with respect for every human being, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – The process to declare a former Brooklyn pastor a saint has begun. The name of Monsignor Bernard Quinn, founding pastor of St. Peter Claver Parish in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the first parish established for black Catholics in the Brooklyn Diocese, will be sent to Rome to be considered for canonization.Read More

In an effort to encourage more parishioners to register their children at Holy Family School, Randallstown, Father Andrew S. Mohl, pastor, has announced a significant drop in the school’s tuition.Read More

Time Magazine’s designation of Vladimir Putin as the person of the year for 2007 has served to spotlight one of the most beautiful cities in the world, St. Petersburg – where churches may function as museums and museums may function as churches.Read More