WASHINGTON – Though officials at the University of Notre Dame are taking a lot of heat for inviting President Barack Obama to be this year’s commencement speaker, most Catholic college students interviewed by Catholic News Service said they would be thrilled if he spoke at their graduation.Read More
Parishioners of St. Bernardine, Baltimore, are looking for 300 good warriors to deal with the city’s highest murder rate in eight years. Prayer warriors, that is.Read More
Working with a cardboard box, duct tape and plastic bags, 17-year-old Justine Lago did her best to construct a makeshift shelter similar to those made by Baltimore’s homeless. She soon realized it took more skill than she anticipated.Read More
WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s recent remarks expanding the definition of reproductive rights to include abortion have sparked criticism and warnings from a U.S. church official and a Catholic congressman.Read More
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s Catholic bishops have pleaded with the federal government to renegotiate a trade treaty with the U.S. and Canada that they say is leading to the cultural death of their nation.Read More
LONDON – A leading Catholic bioethical institute has welcomed the decision of a European court to ban the patenting of any medical treatment derived from destructive experiments on human embryos.Read More
ROME – As the General Congregation of the Society of Jesus discusses and deliberates the order’s present and future, one of the big questions faced by the 225 Jesuit delegates is how best to respond to the encouragements and concerns of Pope Benedict XVI.Read More
DULUTH, Ga. – Notre Dame Academy, a Marist-sponsored school in Duluth, recently became the first Catholic elementary school in the United States to be accredited to teach the International Baccalaureate primary years program designed for children 3 to 12 years old.Read More
The difference between high school and college can often be measured by the various experiences and broader opportunities presented to the student body.Read More
MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderon inaugurated the new Plaza Mariana Oct. 12 adjacent to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, but credit for rescuing the project from budgetary and political problems went to the world’s richest man, Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu.Read More