WASHINGTON – Sulpician Father Thomas R. Ulshafer was elected to a six-year term as the new provincial of his religious community’s Baltimore-based U.S. province, effective July 1.Read More

Honest discourse is healthy and very much needed in this country. I found several well written articles (CR, Jan. 29) that provided critical, favorable, as well as hopeful opinions of the new president. So consider my dismay and disappointment that The Catholic Review chose to print letters attacking African-American Catholic writers for being inspired by...Read More

WASHINGTON – Although provincial elections in Iraq were held without major attacks or violence, an American peace activist said there were tensions and frustration over flawed voter registration.Read More

I am completely baffled by “Catholic health care is not threatened by FOCA” (CR, Feb. 5). The article reads like a pro-choice defense of FOCA. The main support comes from a Sister Carol Keehan (CHA president and CEO) who states that even if a federal law were to mandate that all hospitals provide abortion services,...Read More

Even though there are multitudes of governmental services that benefit seniors, it’s not always easy navigating the bureaucracy.Read More

When Mary Chesnavage ran the lunch program at Sacred Heart of Mary School in Graceland Park, students ate nothing but the best.Read More

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will unveil his vision for Catholic education’s future in two closed-door consultation meetings Feb. 10 and 12 at St. John the Evangelist in Columbia.Read More

The recent article “Catholics to tune in for inauguration” (CR, Jan. 15) was both interesting and disappointing. The decision rendered to keep schools open on inauguration day bespoke of cultural inadequacy and the added policy of recording a student’s absence as “unexcused” raised once again gross insensitivity. The policy served as a barrier of evangelization...Read More