WASHINGTON - Six organizations that perform or promote abortion received at least $967 million in federal funding in fiscal years 2002 through 2009, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.Read More

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Father Jerome Fehn, 54, a Minnesota National Guard chaplain currently based in Iraq, said U.S. soldiers urgently need support and prayers from people at home. “We get a lot of care packages and that’s very good,” he said. But when soldiers receive letters of support, it makes a big impact. “Having...Read More

After each monthly Mass at St. John’s Catholic Prep, Frederick, students comment, “This is the best Mass we’ve ever had!” Angie Galleno, director of campus ministry, said the students’ enthusiasm stems from a new facet of school liturgies – the Praise & Worship Band – composed of 15 singers and musicians from within the student...Read More

VATICAN CITY – When the inside history of U.S.-Vatican relations is finally written, one of the more surprising chapters might be the role played by the Knights of Columbus.Read More

NEW ORLEANS – Dr. Wayne Riley, who is president, CEO and a professor at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., told Catholic media professionals June 4 he feels the new health care reform law was aimed mostly at reforming health insurance.Read More

Veronica Jones, a freshman Mercy High School, Baltimore, won first place in the 2007 Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Contest, sponsored by the YMCA of Central Maryland and the King’s Landing Women’s Service Club.Read More

WASHINGTON (CNS) – The U.S. bishops and Catholic Charities USA have called for an increase in the federal minimum wage. “The minimum wage needs to be raised not just for the goods and services a person can buy but for the self-esteem and self-worth it affords,” said Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, N.Y., chairman of...Read More

WASHINGTON - It might seem like an example of reverse mission: young African men leaving their homeland to pursue ordination as Catholic priests in a religious order that has no missionary presence in Africa, but a long-standing ministry to African-Americans.Read More