News

Baltimore teens get up-close and personal with homelessness

Working with a cardboard box, duct tape and plastic bags, 17-year-old Justine Lago did her best to construct a makeshift shelter similar to those made by Baltimore’s homeless. She soon realized it took more skill than she anticipated.
Read More

Clinton’s remarks on reproductive rights spark Catholic concern

WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s recent remarks expanding the definition of reproductive rights to include abortion have sparked criticism and warnings from a U.S. church official and a Catholic congressman.
Read More

Holy Childhood Association appeals to today’s kids

Catholic schools and religious education programs not only educate children about their faith, they also help children grow spiritually, including teaching them to become missionary.
Read More

Catholics hail European court ruling on patents derived from embryos

LONDON – A leading Catholic bioethical institute has welcomed the decision of a European court to ban the patenting of any medical treatment derived from destructive experiments on human embryos.
Read More

Pope warns diplomats that conflicts threaten global stability

VATICAN CITY – Addressing diplomats from around the world, Pope Benedict XVI warned that numerous armed conflicts and social disorders have left global stability in a fragile situation.
Read More

Touched by universal church, WYD pilgrims reunite with purpose

CATONSVILLE – The crowd was markedly different in size, but the passion was just as fervent.
Read More

Georgia has first Catholic school to offer elementary IB program

DULUTH, Ga. – Notre Dame Academy, a Marist-sponsored school in Duluth, recently became the first Catholic elementary school in the United States to be accredited to teach the International Baccalaureate primary years program designed for children 3 to 12 years old.
Read More

Share in the anniversary celebration of Marriage Encounter

Did you once use a Marriage Encounter weekend to get fired up about each other? You can rekindle your relationship and your memories of Marriage Encounter at the Worldwide Marriage Encounter International Convention in California this June.
Read More

Telecom tycoon rescues $52 million plaza next to Mexican basilica

MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderon inaugurated the new Plaza Mariana Oct. 12 adjacent to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, but credit for rescuing the project from budgetary and political problems went to the world’s richest man, Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu.
Read More

Chicago detainees to receive pastoral care while on deportation buses

CHICAGO – Mercy Sisters Jo Ann Persch, 74, and Pat Murphy, 80, were prepared to go to jail April 30.
Read More

Planning helps families eat well even in busy seasons

It’s hard to serve healthy, nutritious meals to kids belted in the backseat as you speed from an after-school practice for one kid to a 6 p.m. recreational practice for another.
Read More
1 827 828 829 830 831 1,758
En español »