“Archbishop calls on Catholics to embrace evolving church” (CR, Oct. 28) quotes Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien as saying that xenophobia exists in “some of our own Catholic people.” That may be true, but he should avoid characterizing as xenophobic the vast majority of people who oppose illegal immigration. To do so is unfair and uncharitable....Read More
In my column last week, “Shall We Dance?” I wrote about the just and necessary role that laws play in our lives. From the Ten Commandments to the moral teachings of our Catholic faith, we are better, our society is better, I suggested, for having divine guidance in these matters. I then posed the question:...Read More
Moving testimonies from a formerly incarcerated woman, a 70-year-old woman whose mobile home park is closing, an immigrant trying to make a better life for himself in the U.S. and a young person trying to help her peers improve their communities were the main feature of the annual Catholic Campaign for Human Development luncheon Aug....Read More
An incredibly rare T206 Honus Wagner baseball card, one of the most valuable pieces of sports memorabilia in the world, brought an unexpected blessing to the School Sisters of Notre Dame based in Baltimore Nov. 4, when it sold to an unspecified bidder for $262,900 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas.Read More
WASHINGTON – A California Supreme Court decision upholding the rights of a lesbian to be artificially inseminated despite the religious objections of her physician violates the physician’s rights of religious freedom and freedom of speech, according to officials of the California Catholic Conference.Read More
MONTREAL - Olympic Stadium, usually home to football games and trade shows, was converted into the largest place of worship in the country as Canadians celebrated their newest saint.Read More
PEDRO BETANCOURT, Cuba – As a summer afternoon rainstorm brewed, nearly two dozen Cubans gathered on a friend’s covered porch to celebrate Mass.Read More
WASHINGTON - The Catholic woman whose efforts to free her wrongly imprisoned brother became the inspiration for the new motion picture “Conviction” still advocates for the cause of prisoners whenever she gets a chance.Read More
Forty-eight years old seems too young to die. The hole a man’s death leaves in his family never seems to shrink as they forge ahead without him.Read More
WASHINGTON – Even as the death rate slowed in central Haiti a week after the first cases of cholera were reported, a multinational medical response boosted efforts to limit the spread of the disease in the poverty-stricken country.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI warned that racism is alive in modern society, and he urged the church to help overcome all forms of racial intolerance.Read More