PITTSBURGH - An “outpouring of prayer” has come “from every corner of southwestern Pennsylvania” for the victims of a gunman who shot up a suburban Pittsburgh fitness center Aug. 4, said Bishop David A. Zubik.Read More
PHOENIX – More than 2,500 Knights of Columbus and their families from all over the world joined 80 bishops and eight cardinals for an Aug. 4 Mass inaugurating the Knights’ 127th annual supreme convention.Read More
Sometimes great wisdom comes in short sentences. Sister Dorothy Hunt, a retired School Sister of Notre Dame, said “If everybody kept the Ten Commandments, the prisons would be empty. If everyone lived the beatitudes, it would be heaven on earth!” Such simplicity and such profound wisdom in just a few sentences.Read More
I was so thrilled to see a column by Archbishop O’Brien (CR, July 23) about Natural Family Planning (NFP). My husband and I use NFP and feel it enriches our marriage and strengthens our family. Only the Couple to Couple League (CCL) was mentioned as an NFP method. Last fall I traveled to Omaha, to...Read More
Approximately 275 Catholic teens and adults participated in the Micah Experience Work Camp from July 26-31, performing free repairs at the homes of 45 elderly, handicapped and low-income residents in the Baltimore area.Read More
WASHINGTON – As the House of Representatives headed out of Washington for a five-week summer recess, with the Senate soon to follow, members of Congress were vowing to listen to their constituents’ views on health care reform.Read More
LONDON – Britain’s Catholic bishops have said a proposed European Union equality directive could force Christians to act against their consciences.Read More
MEXICO CITY – The Mexican Catholic bishops’ conference has criticized federal police for bursting into a Mass in Mexico’s western Michoacan state to apprehend an alleged drug-cartel lieutenant.Read More
WASHINGTON – Orders of women religious in the United States will be asked to complete a comprehensive questionnaire that looks at six areas of religious life in preparation for a series of apostolic visits set to begin in January.Read More