WASHINGTON – The slide in Wall Street stocks triggered by the federal takeover of mortgage banks and finance houses in September should not pose a problem for religious orders, including those with large numbers or percentages of retired members, according to the head of the National Religious Retirement Office.Read More

WASHINGTON – Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., has reiterated his request that Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius not receive Communion until she publicly repudiates her support for abortion, but said he will not ask eucharistic ministers to refuse to give her Communion.Read More

When Rita and John Buettner go to dinner parties, other couples inevitably start to share the sugar-sweet stories of how they met.Read More

WASHINGTON – World Youth Day events typically draw hundreds of thousands of youths and in some countries they have reached or surpassed the 1 million mark. This year’s event in Sydney, Australia, July 15-20 will be on a much smaller scale.Read More

Wherever life has taken him, from a boyhood in Hamilton to studying under the Jesuits to serving as a U.S. Air Force surgeon in South Vietnam and then establishing a medical practice at Franklin Square Hospital, a strong conscience has accompanied Dr. Louis C. Breschi.Read More

The size of the first graduating class of Sisters Academy of Baltimore, Lansdowne, is the same size of some Catholic families. Although the 10 girls are not all Catholic nor are they sisters, their connection over the past four years since the school opened has been like a family, more distinctively – a sisterhood.Read More

Daddy-daughter time has always been unique at the Hosford home in Annapolis.Read More

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court’s May 20 decision overturning Virginia’s ban on partial-birth abortion thwarts “the clear and common sense of our state’s citizens that a child who is almost entirely born should never be the victim of this brutal practice,” according to the executive director of the Virginia Catholic Conference.Read More