There are days when Elizabeth Pelton laments rising before 5 a.m. to train or the necessity of using Skype to have her father join family dinners in Ruxton, but those sacrifices all seem worth it this week.Read More

On Ash Wednesday, we began Lent. Lent runs from Ash Wednesday until the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday. Pope John Paul II, our late great pope, made the following statement. “Lent is a time of profound truth which brings conversion, restores hope and by putting everything back in its proper order brings...Read More

VATICAN CITY – Sometimes the need for delicacy in handling politically sensitive situations conflicts with the need of the faithful to have clear guidance. That’s what seems to be going on with the Vatican’s China policy, particularly surrounding the ordination in June of a bishop without papal approval.Read More

When Beth Amann took the stage as Dorothy Gale in “The Wizard of Oz” three years ago at The Seton Keough High School, she was a freshman looking for a niche.Read More

WASHINGTON – The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has informed four Catholic dioceses that it will not renew their contracts to provide foster care and adoption services because there has been “no meeting of the minds” about providing services to same-sex couples.Read More

Daniel Medinger broke into the news business at age 10.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI named an official delegation to represent him at the July 9 independence celebrations in Southern Sudan and charged members with conveying his hopes for “peace and prosperity” to citizens of the world’s newest nation.Read More

Its transparent wings beating in a flutter of motion, the locust almost seems ready to jump from the calf-skin parchment on which it is painted. Resting on a delicately arching green leaf, the insect is a physical reminder of a passage in the sacred text that fills the page.Read More