SAGAWIKA, Malawi – With a little mulch from last season’s corn stalks, a deeper hole with more seeds and a few other tweaks of traditional corn-planting techniques, the villages of Nduwa and Sagawika might make it through the next drought in better shape.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has condemned the latest round of nuclear testing and missile launching by North Korea, warning that these acts of aggression threaten “the very survival” of the country's own people by exacerbating its isolation.Read More

PORTLAND, Ore. – Two seminarians – a monk and a future diocesan pastor – say their differing paths complement each other.Read More

Marie Laura Tellier has privately lived the life of a hermit for the last 10 years in Western Maryland – spending many hours of every day in prayer and contemplation.Read More

WASHINGTON – After several months on a “real roller coaster,” federal funding for the AmeriCorps Education Awards Program run by the Catholic Volunteer Network is back to 75 percent of its funding level a year earlier.Read More

DUBLIN, Ireland – Irish Catholic Church and government officials welcomed a report by an independent commission on child abuse and expressed sorrow about the incidents it documented.Read More

NEW YORK – Maryknoll is the gift of mission that the church in America gave to the universal church, and will continue to give, Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick told more than 1,800 participants at a festive Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Oct. 30.Read More

GUATEMALA CITY – Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruno called for restraint and calm as Guatemala confronted its worst political scandal since its civil war ended in 1996.Read More