The Diocese of Gonaives, Haiti, showed its appreciation for Cardinal William H. Keeler by naming a newly built trade school after him.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Anti-terrorist measures at airports should always respect the principles of human dignity, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will create six new saints Oct. 17, including Blessed Mary MacKillop, who will be Australia’s first saint, and the Canadian Blessed Andre Bessette, who will be the first saint of the Holy Cross Brothers.Read More

NEW ORLEANS – First, the good news. Uriel Little, 76, is alive and kicking. What has Little scratching his head these days – two and a half years after he was evacuated from St. Bernard Manor before Hurricane Katrina hit – is a stately stone monument erected Aug. 29, 2007, by St. Bernard Parish, a...Read More

WATERBURY, Conn. – A small group of people traveled 140 miles on a recent Monday morning to pray briefly at the snow-covered grave of a man who died before any of them was born. He wasn’t related to anyone in the group and he hadn’t willed them an inheritance, but he had left them a...Read More

WASHINGTON – A White House adviser told people at the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering Feb. 8 that the Obama administration remains committed to passing health care and immigration legislation, despite political setbacks in Congress.Read More

After more than 10 years as pastor of St. John the Evangelist, Hydes, Father William F. Franken began to feel as if parishioners were like relatives.Read More

VATICAN CITY – When Pope Benedict XVI met with the superiors of religious orders recently, most media coverage focused on the pope’s description of the “difficult crisis” religious life is facing.Read More