WASHINGTON – As the participants in the Group of Eight summit gathered in L’Aquila, Italy, July 8-10, the economic crisis gripping the world was getting lots of attention.Read More

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – It just might be the sweetest, cuddliest volunteer opportunity in the whole state of Alaska. For 67 volunteers at Providence Hospital in Anchorage, that opportunity is called the “Kuddle Korps.” Little training is required. You just have to love very small babies, and have the patience to sit for a couple of...Read More

Ah-choo. When you’re pregnant the last thing you need is to get sick. After all, you’ve probably been nauseated and tired enough.Read More

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities and a representative of the Archdiocese of Washington expressed opposition in late June to a provision in President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget that would permit taxpayer funding of abortions in the District of Columbia.Read More

Sister Joan Minella likes to joke that as a teacher at St. Patrick School in Mount Savage in the early 1960s, she taught half the population of the tiny town.Read More

HUNTINGTON, Ind. – John Norton, a former reporter for the Rome bureau of Catholic News Service and international news anchor for Vatican Radio, has been named editor of Our Sunday Visitor, a national Catholic newspaper based in Huntington.Read More

Habla español? Do you speak Spanish? For an increasing number of non-Hispanic priests and archdiocesan staff, the answer is yes. But that doesn’t mean that Hispanics aren’t willing to learn English – they are.Read More

WASHINGTON – Before her death in October 2008, Alyce Christopher was a familiar face at St. Mary Nativity Parish in Joliet, Ill.Read More