St. Tarsilla, a Roman citizen, was the daughter of St. Sylvia, the sister of St. Emiliana and the aunt of St. Gregory the Great. She didn’t join an order, but she took private vows to live a religious life. She had a vision of St. Felix III, and, after her death, she appeared to Emiliana...Read More

Previous gun turn-ins at St. Gregory the Great netted more than 100 guns. About a year ago, the program lost the sponsor that had provided funds to furnish cash rewards to get the guns off the street.Read More

The Aug. 20 issue contains two items that are strongly connected. Columnist Russell Shaw draws attention to the error of religious groups taking position on matters they don’t know enough about. Environmental activists have frequently been successful in getting church leaders to sign on publicly to the positions for which they are lobbying. By adhering...Read More

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School was launched two years ago, providing a rigorous curriculum for at-risk children and supplying them with the support to master it.Read More

MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin’s Catholic bishops have called a provision in the recently enacted state budget that mandates employer health insurance policies to cover contraceptive services as “blatantly insensitive” to the moral values of Catholics and the church’s teaching against artificial contraception.Read More

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Two Catholic bishops in Baghdad, Iraq, expressed shock and concern for their people following a series of targeted blasts that killed 95 people and wounded more than 500.Read More

Eight Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore will welcome new leaders this fall. The four new principals, two new presidents one interim principal and one interim president include some with deep local roots and others with experience outside the archdiocese.Read More

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – The Nazi death camps were places of extreme evil, the result of the Nazis claiming the power to decide what is good and what is bad and who should live and who should die, said Pope Benedict XVI.Read More