Anyone looking for a quick way to send a card for the Lenten season online should check out the Web site of the Redemptorists of the Denver Province. The site, www.redemptorists-denver.org, now offers electronic cards, called e-cards, for the Lenten season, Easter and Good Friday. There are also cards for respect for life, birthdays, Mother’s...Read More

When times are tough for Jaidan Richardson, his classmates have his back.Read More

According to Thomas J. Zabetakis’ address “Illegal immigration should not be tolerated,” (CR, Feb. 15), it is evident that he is unaware of the “total picture of illegal aliens.” While it is understood well that illegal immigrants seek “to escape poverty and gain employment to support their families,” he fails to consider their social position...Read More

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court has permanently lifted the injunction that had briefly stopped federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research.Read More

ROME – The goal was a bullet into the net, and as his cheering teammates mobbed Daniel O’Mullane it seemed like a World Cup celebration. Mr. O’Mullane had just led Pontifical North American College to a dramatic first-round victory in the 16-team Clericus Cup, the soccer tournament exclusively for priests and seminarians in Rome. The...Read More

WASHINGTON – A handful of Catholic Worker groups across the country were among the anti-war activists, environmentalists and animal-rights groups wrongly investigated by the FBI, according to a lengthy report released Sept. 20 by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General.Read More

VATICAN CITY – If he looked around the chapel during his Lenten retreat this year, Pope Benedict XVI would have seen an all-male assembly. The absence of women was not deliberate. The invitation to attend the pope’s spiritual exercises goes out to the top two or three officials of Vatican agencies, and almost all of...Read More

What a wonderful institution St. Louis School in Clarksville is – to be named a Blue Ribbon School (CR, Sept. 16) and to have Linda Wilson as a longtime teacher. Wilson is an extraordinary elementary school teacher, as her legion of former and current students will attest.Read More