PUNE, India – The Diocese of Pune closed its schools for a week and postponed several programs as swine flu spread throughout the western Indian city.Read More

WASHINGTON – Catholic bishops in Taiwan asked their people to pray for the victims of Typhoon Morakot, which dumped more than 80 inches of rain on the island the second weekend in August.Read More

The article “Strength from gentle pope” (CR, July 30) came to a correct conclusion when it called us to study the encyclical. However, terms must be understood. If Tony Magliano understood the implications of “profit” and “improper means,” he would have realized that the present economic crisis is the antithesis of “the accumulation of money...Read More

I read with some trepidation “Nuclear Weapons and Moral Questions: The Path to Zero,” a challenging article by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien; His connection being his ministry with the U.S. Military, mine having a grandson at Camp Lejeune, N.C.Read More

The history of Towson Catholic has members of my family written in it. After grade school, my aunts went to Franciscan schools run by the Philadelphia Franciscans. Three of our family were sisters in that community. The girls in our family went to The Catholic High School. In grade school many of us were schooled...Read More

LES COMBES, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI said the Vatican and Italian police who watched over him while he was on vacation in the Italian Alps were like “guardian angels, discreet and efficient.”Read More

CHICAGO – The Archdiocese of Chicago announced July 21 that it had reached settlements totaling $3.9 million in cases of six survivors of clergy sex abuse.Read More

George Weigel’s column on Obama and Notre Dame (CR, July 9) was one of his best. He asks, “What is the embodiment, the instantiation, the living reality of the Catholic Church to which (the administration and trustees of Notre Dame) profess loyalty? Where is it? Who speaks for it? What difference does it make what...Read More