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

I enjoyed reading your article “Mission for the Military,” (CR, April 5).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

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – God’s people need time to unwind the mystery of the liturgy, both during Mass and over time, said Cardinal Godfried Danneels during a lecture at Boston College April 17. Cardinal Danneels, the archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium, was co-author of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (“Sacrosanctum Concilium”), approved by the Second...Read More

Where can we go to get the clear Catholic Church’s teachings and stay properly informed?Read More

Deacon Frederick Passauer and his wife Kathy were booming business owners of an insurance company in Manchester, when they heard God’s calling. The couple sold their business and their home and moved to the Deep Creek Lake area to start their new business, serving parishioners of western Maryland. “We knew this was our goal. To...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

In the April 12 issue, a book review reprinted from Catholic News Service praised “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s book that accompanies his movie of the same name. A central theme of Gore’s efforts is to assert that we have a moral obligation to take action against carbon dioxide emissions. We read “The final 15...Read More