ROME – Criminals thinking about trafficking women and children for prostitution at the world’s largest sporting events in 2010 will have to face the combined force of hundreds of women’s religious orders.Read More
ROME – Spanish-born Father Adolfo Nicolas, the newly elected superior general of the Jesuits, called on the more than 19,000 members of his order to strengthen their service to the poor and those excluded from the benefits of economic globalization.Read More
It was a slow morning at the R$P$ Panther Savings Bank the first day back to school in January. Four students deposited $1 each and two others handed over $40 checks to tellers who man banking stations in the Resurrection-St. Paul School hall every Wednesday morning from 8:40 a.m. to 9:10 a.m.Read More
WASHINGTON – The U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations has set up a Web site to mark the Year for Priests, a worldwide celebration from June 19 of this year to June 19, 2010.Read More
GREEN BAY, Wis. – Packer nation, meet your captain: Franciscan Sister Sean Marie Tobin. Visitors to the Green Bay Packers’ official Web site, Packers.com, selected Sister Sean Marie of Manitowoc as winner of the site’s playoff-ticket essay contest.Read More
More than 30 years before the Emancipation Proclamation, Mother Mary Lange fought to establish the first religious order for black women and the first black Catholic school in the United States.Read More
While Cita Brown calls the United States home, she has not forgotten the poorest of the poor in her native country, the Philippines. The parishioner of St. Ursula, Parkville, and her husband, Douglas, are actively involved with FAPI, the Foundation for Aid to the Philippines Inc.Read More
DUBLIN, Ireland – Pope Benedict XVI was visibly upset to hear June 5 of the abuse suffered by thousands of Irish children in the care of religious congregations, reported the archbishop of Dublin, Ireland.Read More
ROME – At the start of a visit to Italy, excommunicated Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo was denied Communion when he attended a Mass at a local parish church near Naples.Read More
UNITED NATIONS – The best and cheapest way to prepare Africa for a better future is to educate all its youths, especially girls and young women, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Vatican nuncio to the United Nations, said April 10. Addressing the 40th session of the U.N. Commission on Population and Development, the archbishop said that according...Read More