WASHINGTON – Abortion supporters, including members of Congress and candidates for public office, are being challenged to explain their understanding of abortion by Priests for Life and other pro-life leaders.Read More
WASHINGTON – After nearly 30 years of teaching religious education to children ages 3 to 14, Peggy Olds of Willowbrook, Ill., was convinced of one thing.Read More
A Baltimore New Year’s Eve tradition will be renewed at historic St.Ignatius Church, Calvert and Madison Streets, when the 18th Annual Interfaith Service will be held Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths will be represented during the hour-long prayer service.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Pius XII worked courageously, secretly and silently to help save Jews targeted by the Nazis’ “criminal plan ... to eliminate them from the face of the earth,” said Pope Benedict XVI.Read More
WASHINGTON – A Sister of St. Joseph who was Iona College’s chief financial officer has been charged by federal prosecutors with embezzling $800,000 from the Christian Brothers-run school over a decade.Read More
CHENGDU, China – Catholics joined other Chinese in observing three minutes of silence May 19 to pray for and mourn those killed by the earthquake that hit southwestern China a week earlier.Read More
WASHINGTON – The needs of poor and marginalized people deserve the same attention from government officials as the current needs of Wall Street’s failing financial firms, said a group of religious leaders.Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – Archbishop George H. Niederauer of San Francisco and other California Catholic leaders condemned the May 15 ruling by the California Supreme Court that struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s recent comments about condoms represented a “normal and traditional” pastoral application of moral theology, according to a theologian who advises the Vatican on doctrinal matters.Read More