WASHINGTON – Telephone polling of Catholics and non-Catholics over three years shows the degree of difference between the two groups on abortion, the death penalty and other moral issues about which the Catholic Church has spoken.Read More
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien said he was “minding my own business in Rome” while attending World Youth Day events when he learned Pope Benedict XVI want to appoint him Pro-Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher Aug. 17.Read More
Michael Lyons loves drawing pictures so much he wants to be an artist someday. “I like moving my hand around and seeing what it makes,” the third-grader at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Elementary School said during a recent art class at the Essex school. “Sometimes I just think it out and sometimes I just...Read More
WASHINGTON – As Florida’s Supreme Court lifted a stay of execution for Manuel Valle, clearing the path for him to be put to death Sept. 6, the state’s Catholic bishops urged Gov. Rick Scott to stop it.Read More
Songwriter Samuel W. Beazley wrote in his song “The Gospel News”: “Tell the Word of Life to all who may be found wand’ring far from God. … Tell out the Gospel news; preach it, teach it, tell it, that all may know Jesus the savior, who loves them so. Spread abroad the Gospel news.” And...Read More
LUANDA, Angola – Addressing Angolan political leaders and an international group of diplomats, Pope Benedict XVI appealed on behalf of African families struggling from the effects of poverty, disease and war.Read More
MADRID – The mood at World Youth Day changed dramatically late Aug. 19 as Pope Benedict XVI and hundreds of thousands of young people turned their thoughts to suffering.Read More
WASHINGTON – “Adopt-a-seminarian” programs to support and encourage young men studying for the priesthood are pretty common in U.S. dioceses, and programs like that for young women could help foster vocations to religious life, said Benedictine Sister Michelle Catherine Sinkhorn.Read More
Forced in 1996 to flee the war-ravaged Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), 21-year-old Guy Kagere found refuge in neighboring Zambia, where he ended up living with American and European missionaries.Read More
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien reiterated his support for the repeal of Maryland’s death penalty during a House of Delegates Judiciary Committee hearing in Annapolis March 17.Read More
MEXICO CITY – Ricardo Salazar Sanchez boarded a northbound bus in the central state of Guanajuato with 22 fellow residents for a journey to the U.S.-Mexico border – and a subsequent attempt at crossing into Texas, where potential construction jobs awaited.Read More