ATLANTA – In a presentation at a Jewish academy in Atlanta, a U.S. senator and an archbishop spoke about the role of faith in public life, how it shapes their outlook on public service and how faith should inform but not dictate a politician’s position. The keynote speakers, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Atlanta Archbishop...Read More

Tim Watkins wants people to know the truth about Our Lady of Guadalupe.Read More

SAN FRANCISCO – Calling proposed California physician-assisted suicide legislation “strongly and implicitly anti-Catholic” and accusing its advocates of “trying to bend the Catholic Church’s moral teaching to the will of the culture of death agenda,” an international expert on bioethics urged listeners at a May 7 lecture to do everything in their power to help...Read More

ROME – Two Iraqi women wore, pinned to their lapels, pictures of the loved ones they lost in a terrorist attack on a church in Baghdad. One had photos of her husband and young son, and the other had a creased black and white portrait of her mother stuck securely over their hearts.Read More

Every Thursday morning Doctor Charles Edwards II runs from his home in Ruxton to his office in the Maryland Spine Center at Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore. The route is about nine miles. Dr. Edwards has been running since his days of cross country and track in middle school. When he was just 10 years old...Read More

GERMANTOWN – About 300 people stood outside a Germantown abortion clinic in biting cold weather for several hours Dec. 6 to protest the arrival of LeRoy Carhart, a controversial doctor from Nebraska who performs late-term abortions.Read More

I noticed several inaccuracies in the letter sent by Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen titled: “Scientists divided on issue of global warming” (CR, April 26). In this response I will address Dr. Sheahen’s comments on the consensus of scientist’s concerning human-induced climate change and his comments on recent global temperatures as compared to those of the...Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pakistan’s president may not have the political strength needed to abolish the anti-blasphemy law that places Christians at risk, but he has promised to try to revise the law, said Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran.Read More