SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy – Venerating the relics of St. Padre Pio is a reminder that the saints were real men and women who lived for God, said Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes.Read More

CBS correspondent Byron Pitts, a graduate of Baltimore’s St. Katharine School and Archbishop Curley High School, will be doing a story on literacy on CBS Sunday Morning Oct. 4 from 9 to 10:30 a.m.Read More

PORTLAND, Ore. – A deal reached by the city of Portland, the local public school district and the regional mass transit company offers free bus rides to high school students in the city - but only if they attend a public school.Read More

WASHINGTON – Although some had predicted that Pope Benedict XVI’s April 15-20 visit to the United States would take a decidedly political turn in a presidential election year, the pope’s major speeches avoided specific references to most domestic and international issues while defending the right of church leaders to speak out on public policy matters.Read More

NEW YORK – Christian leaders who gathered April 18 for an ecumenical prayer service with Pope Benedict XVI at St. Joseph’s Church in New York gave credit to the pope for joining 300 of them under one roof.Read More

Whenever an American serviceman suffered a major injury in Iraq, there was a very strong probability he would be treated by Dr. Wilmer Jones.Read More

How interesting to follow your lukewarm article on Sen. Ted Kennedy with praise of a military priest “taking faith to troops on front” (CR, Sept. 3).Apparently it’s not OK for Kennedy to believe that the only course to follow legally in this pluralistic country, given the Constitution, is to allow women to choose how to...Read More

WASHINGTON – People who had a professional interest in the April 17 papal Mass at Nationals Stadium – security, media reps, choirs, musicians, stadium facilitators, food coordinators and souvenir vendors – began arriving as early as 3 a.m.Read More