VATICAN CITY – People speculating on what Pope Benedict XVI will say in the United States in April would do well to look at what he said at the Vatican on Palm Sunday.Read More

RIO DE JANEIRO – Fabricio Mendes remembers a time when just walking around his neighborhood was a matter of life or death. Drug traffickers roamed freely and guns were plentiful.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican spokesman dismissed Osama bin Laden’s accusations of an anti-Islam campaign by Pope Benedict XVI, noting the pope’s efforts to dialogue with Muslims.Read More

CLARKSVILLE – St. Louis School principal Terry Weiss looked out over a crowd of hundreds of people inside St. Louis Church April 28. Relief took over.Read More

"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail; and when you have turned again, strengthen your brethren” (Luke 22:31-32). Our Lord Jesus addressed these words to St. Peter as the time of His death drew near....Read More

NEW ORLEANS – Sister Helen Prejean, a Sister of St. Joseph of Medaille and an international voice against the death penalty, urged educators at the National Catholic Educational Association convention April 27 to approach the issue in bold new ways with students who are increasingly opposed to capital punishment.Read More

WASHINGTON – When Pope Benedict XVI comes to Washington this spring, he will deliver a one-hour address on Catholic education April 17 to presidents of U.S. Catholic colleges and universities and Catholic school superintendents from every U.S. diocese and archdiocese.Read More

WASHINGTON – During the April 27 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, speakers paid tribute to the soon-to-be-beatified Pope John Paul II and urged Catholic participants to continue his legacy of defending religious liberty and human dignity.Read More