WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama announced the nomination of the Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook to be ambassador at large for international religious freedom.Read More
NEW YORK – On Super Bowl Sunday, most of Transfiguration Church in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn had an answer for Father Tony Hernandez when he asked them where they’d be for the kickoff.Read More
UNITED NATIONS – People must be equipped “with more than knowledge, ability, technical competence and tools” to truly combat “the deeper causes” of AIDS and provide “loving care” to those who have it, the Vatican’s U.N. nuncio said.Read More
ROME – The new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican said she expects Pope Benedict XVI’s upcoming visit to the United States to be a thought-provoking event for Catholics, non-Catholics and international representatives.Read More
WASHINGTON – Across the faith spectrum this year, from the Sojourners to the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptists, prayer, education and advocacy are being taken up for the cause of immigration reform.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI called the kidnapping and death of an Iraqi archbishop “an act of inhuman violence that offends the dignity of the human being and seriously harms the ... coexistence among the beloved Iraqi people.”Read More
NEW ORLEANS – The Catholic Review earned 10 Catholic Press Awards, including multiple first-place honors for an Independent Living special section and a third-place for Senior Writer George P. Matysek Jr. in the Individual Excellence category.Read More
DETROIT -- Just as St. Patrick evangelized Ireland in the fifth century, an Irish priest studying in Detroit says the Irish of the 21st century now need the new evangelization called for by the late Pope John Paul II.Read More
At the conclusion of the current school year, 13 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore will close. The Catholic Review pays homage to those schools and their legacies, with capsules of the elementary schools. Six appear this week, and six more appeared in the May 27 issue. An article on The Cardinal Gibbons School...Read More
Calling it the “main preoccupation” of the seminary to “create priests after the heart of Christ,” Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien celebrated Mass with the board of trustees, seminarians, administrators and members of the St. Mary’s Seminary community in Roland Park, March 3.Read More