WASHINGTON – The financial shocks that have staggered the U.S. economy in September have raised worries about the prices of housing, energy and food as well as retirement income, said a spokesman for a Catholic-run investment services firm.Read More
Listen to your feet. If they’re screaming, or even whimpering, your shoes might be to blame. High heels get a bad rap, but flipflops aren’t any better. And no matter what style shoe you’re wearing, it’s probably not wide enough.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Changing the world for the better does not come from leaders making grandiose promises or calling for a violent revolution, Pope Benedict XVI said: It comes from the humble individuals who silently carry God’s light and love to everyone around them.Read More
John McGinty sat down at a table in the basement of the Loyola/Notre Dame Library Sept. 12 with a soda can in hand and breathed a sigh of relief. He looked around and marveled at his surroundings.Read More
MOSCOW – Russia’s new Catholic archbishop has pledged to improve cooperation with the Russian Orthodox Church, while rejecting proselytism and helping resolve the country’s “pressing problems.”Read More
They had been married for many years. The husband was now dying, and the wife was wondering what to do with the rest of her life. Working with a spiritual director, she discerned that God might be calling her to life as a religious. Her spiritual director suggested that she might want to tell her...Read More
LACKAWANNA, N.Y. – Minutes before a memorial Mass for NBC News journalist Tim Russert, Mercy Sister Lucille Socciarelli smiled as she looked out at nearly 1,000 people who had come to Our Lady of Victory Basilica in Lackawanna.Read More
DUBLIN, Ireland – Parishioners from three Church of Ireland parishes have joined traditional Anglicans from 12 other countries in requesting that the Catholic Church receive them into full communion.Read More
VATICAN CITY – WikiLeaks’ release of classified U.S. documents is unlikely to ever develop into a flood capable of eroding decades of U.S. diplomatic efforts, some Vatican officials and watchers said.Read More
PARIS – Pope Benedict XVI warned that Western cultural efforts to marginalize religion and believers would bring disaster for humanity and ultimately “play into the hands of fanaticism.”Read More
ST. LOUIS – Sister Mary Whited, the new president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, likes to keep doors open and the conversation going. And she promises “not to back down” when discussions grow difficult.Read More