Patricia Falter knew at a very early age that her son Matthew was different than her older son. Matthew has autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder that causes him to have a short attention span and obsession over objects, activities and places. From the time Matthew was very young he had to have a visual schedule of...Read More

BANGALORE, India – Catholic officials in Pakistan expressed disappointment after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani reiterated there would be no amendment to the country’s blasphemy law, which makes insulting the Prophet Mohammed or the Quran punishable by life imprisonment or death.Read More

WASHINGTON – An increase in the federal minimum wage, its proponents would argue, is not only an idea whose time has come, but an idea whose time had come long ago. The minimum wage was last increased in 1997. The 10-years-and-counting gap between increases is the longest since the minimum wage was instituted in 1938....Read More

School Sister of Notre Dame Kathleen Feeley doesn’t want to see a world without her passion, Catholic education.Read More

When Jessica Butler of Hamilton was elected freshman class president at Towson Catholic High School last November, she didn’t realize how much work was involved. As the 14-year-old freshman thought about her demanding high school studies and sports events, on top of the planning sessions, constituent service time and Student Government Association meetings, she said...Read More

WASHINGTON – William Ford, the late brother of Maryknoll Sister Ita Ford, was honored in a Capitol Hill event Jan. 6 for his 28-year pursuit of justice for his sister and three other U.S. churchwomen murdered in December 1980 in El Salvador at the height of the nation’s civil war.Read More

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The fallout from the resignation of Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus continued, with revelations about his role as an informant for former secret police, warnings about new disclosures to come and the resignation of a leading churchman in Krakow, Poland. Pope Benedict XVI accepted Archbishop Wielgus’ resignation Jan. 7, just two days...Read More

VATICAN CITY – If farmers in Africa had greater access to fertile, arable land safe from armed conflict and pollutants, they would not need genetically modified crops to produce food, said the head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.Read More