OTTAWA, Ontario – A new pastoral letter from Canada’s Catholic bishops is aimed at helping school boards, teachers, parents and students in their ministry to young people with same-sex attraction.Read More
DENVER – Actor Liam Neeson, whose latest film “Taken” was the top box-office draw in the United States the first weekend of its release Jan. 30-Feb. 1, has narrated a version of the Way of the Cross written by St. Alphonsus Liguori.Read More
Although I have lived in the Washington, D.C., area since 1984, I am an orthodox Baltimorean by birth, nurture, education, baseball loyalties, and a settled disdain for offering tartar sauce with crab cakes. So I should be the last person to think the unthinkable about my native city’s principal contribution to American public culture (after,...Read More
NEW YORK – Many news stories about the recently released report on “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010” tried – and failed – to capture its complex findings in a sound bite, according to the principal investigator for the study.Read More
WASHINGTON – Although a majority of Americans support many of President Barack Obama’s early actions in office, only about a third back his decision to allow funding for overseas family planning groups that provide abortions, according to a new poll by USA Today/Gallup.Read More
ROME – Calling the Blessed Virgin Mary the “first tabernacle that gave a home to Jesus,” Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien celebrated a June 27 Mass for more than 100 pilgrims inside the ornately decorated Borghese Chapel of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.Read More
WASHINGTON – Most of them weren’t born yet when the events occurred that came to define the U.S. crisis of sexual abuse by priests. But for men who entered the seminary in the past decade, a point of commonality seems to be that they want to prove that priests are good people.Read More
WASHINGTON – The Vatican has initiated an apostolic visitation of institutes for women religious in the United States to find out why the numbers of their members have decreased during the past 40 years and to look at the quality of life in the communities.Read More
JERUSALEM – The influx of Iraqi refugees into Jordan as well as continuing Israeli-Palestinian tensions are two of the major concerns the new Latin patriarch of Jerusalem said he would face after his June 22 installation.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican will host an international congress to promote the use of adult stem cells as a safe, effective and ethical means to fight degenerative diseases.Read More
TRENTON, N.J. – It is Sunday morning and Sally and Tom are preparing to take their three children – 6-year-old Abby, 3-year-old Matthew and 1-year-old Joey – to Mass.Read More
WASHINGTON – Europe and Iraq were ranked among the 10 “worst places for refugees” in the 2008 World Refugee Survey for policies such as “warehousing” refugees for decades or for forcing them back to dangerous situations in their homelands.Read More