The sun rises over the Chesapeake Bay, offering hopeful rays each morning to patients meditating on the lawn by the chapel at Father Martin’s Ashley.Read More
OSLO, Norway – U.S. President Barack Obama, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 10, said extremists who “kill in the name of God” have a “warped view of religion” that is incompatible with the purpose of faith.Read More
After nearly five years working as an assistant to Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski in the office of the eastern vicar, Sister Constance “Connie” Gilder, S.S.J., is taking on a new role as Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien’s delegate to religious.Read More
WASHINGTON – The economic recession may have a “silver lining” in terms of its effect on U.S. marriages, according to a leading marriage expert.Read More
WASHINGTON – Parishes in Iowa, Wisconsin and Indiana escaped serious damage after several rounds of storms June 7-8 brought record flooding and devastating tornadoes to large swaths of the Midwest. Some homeowners, however, were not as fortunate.Read More
Just as enthusiastically as some of their parents rejected traditional morality and religion, many young people today are embracing Christian orthodoxy and ethics, according to Colleen Carroll Campbell.Read More
IJAMSVILLE – If cooking a turkey dinner is a way of putting faith into action, the youths of St. Ignatius of Loyola have voted to act with their feet and their paring knives.Read More
NOTRE DAME, Ind. - Professors from other institutions came to the University of Notre Dame to criticize both the way the university handled its invitation to President Barack Obama as 2009 commencement speaker and Obama’s commencement address itself.Read More
WASHINGTON – Before April 16, 2007, Marian Hammaren of Westtown, N.Y., thought she knew what she’d been put on the earth to do: to be Caitlin’s mother, to guide and protect her.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, said the ecumenical situation really is that of a “glass half full,” and he held his water glass up to emphasize the point.Read More