Tears come easily to Walt Brooksbank when it comes to talking about his wife of 46 years, Ann.Read More

While Catholics around the country will take respect life issues into the voting booth Nov. 4, many young people unable to cast are nonetheless looking for ways to change the United States.Read More

WASHINGTON – A year after the Department of Homeland Security stopped deportations to Haiti for humanitarian reasons, the agency is being urged back off its recent resumption of deportations on the grounds that civil unrest, cholera and slow earthquake recovery make Haiti too dangerous.Read More

The recent U.S. Religious Landscape Survey conducted by the Pew Research Center reaffirms findings that have been known in Hispanic/Latino ministry circles for a long time. Namely, Hispanics/Latinos are responsible for most of the growth of the Catholic Church in the United States (71 percent since 1960). This pattern will continue for decades to come...Read More

WASHINGTON – In an address to Catholic college and university presidents Jan. 29 in Washington, Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., praised them for making “Christ’s mission come alive and flourish” and challenged them to renew and strengthen their mission using guidelines established by the 1990 Vatican document on Catholic higher education.Read More

Teach the children well, so they may learn the ways of God before the ways of the gangs.Read More

On the first day of school for Mount St. Joseph High School in Irvington last September, Xaverian Brother James M. Kelly’s Honors British Literature students walked into the classroom to find him physically missing.Read More

WASHINGTON – Though President George W. Bush may not be able to officially act on a request by the U.S. Catholic bishops that he grant Haitians temporary protected status for the next 18 months for humanitarian reasons, a Department of Homeland Security official said federal efforts have been implemented to provide nationals from that Caribbean...Read More