INDIANAPOLIS – Catholic elementary schools in Indiana are experiencing increased enrollment this year in part because the state’s new school voucher program has enabled more than 3,200 students to attend religious or private schools this year.Read More

WASHINGTON – Telephone polling of Catholics and non-Catholics over three years shows the degree of difference between the two groups on abortion, the death penalty and other moral issues about which the Catholic Church has spoken.Read More

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien said he was “minding my own business in Rome” while attending World Youth Day events when he learned Pope Benedict XVI want to appoint him Pro-Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher Aug. 17.Read More

Michael Lyons loves drawing pictures so much he wants to be an artist someday. “I like moving my hand around and seeing what it makes,” the third-grader at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Elementary School said during a recent art class at the Essex school. “Sometimes I just think it out and sometimes I just...Read More

WASHINGTON – As Florida’s Supreme Court lifted a stay of execution for Manuel Valle, clearing the path for him to be put to death Sept. 6, the state’s Catholic bishops urged Gov. Rick Scott to stop it.Read More

Songwriter Samuel W. Beazley wrote in his song “The Gospel News”: “Tell the Word of Life to all who may be found wand’ring far from God. … Tell out the Gospel news; preach it, teach it, tell it, that all may know Jesus the savior, who loves them so. Spread abroad the Gospel news.” And...Read More

The Howard Park Community’s collective voice has been heard, and their prayers are on the verge of being answered.Read More

LUANDA, Angola – Addressing Angolan political leaders and an international group of diplomats, Pope Benedict XVI appealed on behalf of African families struggling from the effects of poverty, disease and war.Read More