PHOENIX – While the NFL and advertisers used Super Bowl XLII as a chance to further their enterprises and increase profits, some Benedictine sisters in Phoenix used the big game as an opportunity to further the work of the Catholic Church in spreading the Gospel.Read More

WASHINGTON – With President Barack Obama’s controversial May commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame several months past, the president of the Indiana school has forged ahead with plans for a national discussion on abortion.Read More

Archbishop O’Brien’s column (CR, Sept. 10) describes the third Kennedy brother, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, as a “pro-abortion poster boy,” and suggests that in death he might now intercede for America, “if granted Paradise.” By contrast, Cardinal O’Malley of Boston (CR, Sept. 10), in reflecting on the life and political career of Sen. Kennedy, stated:...Read More

NEW ORLEANS –The St. Peter Claver seventh-grade students were studying heredity and genetics when U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings dropped in for a visit Jan. 31. Teacher Rachel Pleis was using M&M candies in different colors to emphasize her points.Read More

DUBUQUE, Iowa – Franciscan Sister Dorothy Marie Hennessey, a teacher turned activist who made national news at age 88 when she was sentenced to federal prison for trespassing at a Georgia military base, died Jan. 24 at the age of 94.Read More

There seems to be a minority in the clergy that treats politicians as a favored class of Catholics. The recent funeral of Sen. Kennedy is a good example. As a lifelong Catholic and a fighter for the lives of the unborn since Roe v. Wade, I can’t help but feel extreme frustration that this man...Read More

MEXICO CITY – The executions of 18 young men during a prayer service at a Mexican drug rehabilitation center Sept. 2 failed to surprise many church and public safety officials, who say Mexico’s drug cartels increasingly are luring vulnerable youths into lives of addiction and crime.Read More

ROME – The obedience, affection and common mission binding the Society of Jesus to the pope are solid, unchanging and the reason why differences can be so painful, said the new superior general of the Jesuits.Read More