From people outside of the Catholic Church, I often hear the question: “Why do you Catholics make so much of Mary?” The simplest answer I can ever give is: “We honor Mary because God honored Mary.”Read More

SMITHTON, Pa. - Jeff Grabosky dipped his hands in the Pacific Ocean Jan. 20 then started running toward the East Coast where in late May, he plans to jump into the Atlantic Ocean.Read More

WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Harry J. Flynn of St. Paul and Minneapolis.Read More

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will ordain 14 men to the permanent diaconate May 14 during a 10 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.Read More

WASHINGTON – Philadelphia Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, praised legislation introduced in the House in late April that would ban the creation of human-animal embryos for research.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The general assembly of Caritas Internationalis in late May is shaping up as a defining moment for the confederation of 165 national Catholic charities, at a time when the Vatican is insisting on greater control over Caritas operations.Read More

Joan Dunn thought she was prepared for life in Kashima West, a remote part of the northwestern province of Zambia, Africa. Reading about Third World nations and viewing pictures of people who are starving and living in impoverished conditions is one thing – seeing the reality of their situation is another.Read More

When Sister Kathleen Feeley was summoned last year from Ghana by her order, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, to serve as interim president of the Institute of Notre Dame, she faced prodigious change.Read More