WASHINGTON – A report sent to the U.S. bishops by their National Review Board and Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People said the safe environment education programs for children in dioceses across the nation are “a major accomplishment and one that must continually be maintained and reinforced.” It proposed criteria for evaluating...Read More

WASHINGTON – Five longtime peace activists were found guilty of a series of federal charges stemming from an All Souls’ Day demonstration in 2009 at a U.S. Navy nuclear weapons depot in Bangor, Wash.Read More

BEIJING (CNS) -- As Chinese Catholic seminaries and religious communities work to train a new generation of priests and nuns, many religious leaders say their greatest need is for people to learn religious formation -- how to accompany a candidate in religious life. "We still have a great need for formation work," said Auxiliary Bishop...Read More

WASHINGTON – With a vote of 59 to 40, the Senate Dec. 9 kept alive hopes for passing the DREAM Act by tabling the long-sought bill that would give potentially millions of students who are in the country illegally the chance to go to college or join the military and legalize their status.Read More

A deacon’s son and a graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School, Baltimore, will move closer to their goal of priesthood on May 12 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore, when they are ordained transitional deacons. John Rapisarda, 29, and Ernest Cibelli, 25, will be...Read More

A new group is forming in the Maryland-Washington-Northern Virginia area to help men live their Catholic faith and reclaim what organizers call an “authentic sense of masculinity.”Read More

ANNANDALE, Va. – Hundreds of parishioners gathered with Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde at Holy Spirit Church in Annandale April 22 for an evening prayer service for the Virginia Tech victims and their families. Many of those in attendance sported the Blacksburg university’s familiar colors of maroon and orange as a sign of solidarity with...Read More

WILMINGTON, Del. – A Superior Court jury in Delaware’s Kent County has awarded clergy sex abuse victim John Vai $3 million in damages from St. Elizabeth Church in Wilmington for the parish’s negligent supervision of former priest Francis DeLuca when he was stationed at the parish.Read More