Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be executed for his role in the Boston Marathon bombings?Read More

Cardinal Francis E. George, the retired archbishop of Chicago who was the first native Chicagoan to head the archdiocese, died April 17.Read More

“Service is something our school is about,” said Mount St. Joseph High School principal David Norton.Read More

Today is the 88th birthday of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI:Born in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, Germany, on April 16, 1927, on my Grandmother’s sixth birthday, the former Joseph Ratzinger was elected to the papacy on April 19, 2005 after the death of Pope John Paul II. Then 78 years old,Read More

I hadn't been to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Emmitsburg, Md., in at least five years. And our sons had never been.So a few weeks ago I invited one of Leo’s friends and her mother to join the boys and me for a visit to the Grotto.Our sons are a veryRead More

I had been caring for three sick boys for a week and a day, when my friend Gina sent me a message asking if she could do anything to help. I told her if I thought of anything, I’d let her know. Then, she offered to pick Collin up andRead More

A funeral Mass for Sister Elena Goulding, of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, was offered April 14.Read More

Eradicating male and female identities does nothing to solve the problem of unfair or disrespectful treatment, the pope said.Read More