WASHINGTON – The U.S. bishops’ pro-life spokeswoman is disputing a new report from the Guttmacher Institute that says Catholic women - including frequent churchgoers - are just as likely as other women to use artificial contraception.Read More

Tension often exists between the dominant culture in a parish and the minority Hispanic-Latino Catholic communities. This situation can be a challenge to the church’s mission. Instead of celebrating the building of community and promoting worship and life in prayer, or being of service to the most marginalized among us, including fighting for justice and...Read More

WASHINGTON – Joseph Scheidler, regarded by many as the “godfather of the pro-life movement,” sees the mood shifting in the United States on the abortion issue and predicts pro-lifers eventually “will prevail.”Read More

KIGALI, Rwanda – Nigerian Catholic bishops urged their Rwandan counterparts to become a more public force for peace and democracy in Rwanda.Read More

WASHINGTON – Not too long ago, Kay Hughes found a set of suicide letters that she had written to her six children. Then she found a second set.Read More

On the first Sunday of Advent, I visited the Festival of Trees at the Timonium Fairgrounds. Among the many vendors, I discovered Gizmo’s Art, and I found a framed early representation of Santa Claus, and a poem I had never seen before. It was dated 1899, but no author was credited and no newspaper cited....Read More

SEVERNA PARK – John and Linda DeMichiei stared at the face of Jesus and saw their son, John Jr., April 11.Read More

VATICAN CITY – No fully moral solution exists for dealing with frozen embryos, not even the idea of adopting or “rescuing” abandoned embryos to bring them to full development and birth, Vatican officials said.Read More