MEXICO CITY – The Interior Ministry fired seven top officials in charge of immigration matters in regions where the abduction of undocumented migrants by organized gangs has been rampant and local officials increasingly are being implicated as complicit in the crimes.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Saying the future of the world was at stake, Pope Benedict XVI called for major new efforts to reduce global poverty, end regional conflicts and restore ethics to global financial systems.Read More
NEWARK, N.J. – Yankee legend Phil Rizzuto, who died Aug. 14 at age 89, will be remembered for many things, not the least of which will be the amount of money he raised for St. Joseph’s School for the Blind in Jersey City, a private Catholic institution founded and sponsored by the Sisters of St....Read More
WASHINGTON – Acknowledging that Congress and the administration face “difficult challenges” in tackling the country’s massive budget deficit, the U.S. bishops reiterated their call that the needs of poor and vulnerable people must be protected in any budget decisions.Read More
As we look with promise on the new year upon us, we might take a moment to reflect on the year that ended and the many ways in which God has blessed our Archdiocesan family.Read More
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Catholic laypeople must put their faith into action by saying “yes” to Christ, said Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, during an Aug. 8 keynote address to the Knights of Columbus. “This ‘yes’ is quite simply the ‘yes’ of faith,” he said, stressing that it is a “full, unmitigated acceptance of...Read More
WASHINGTON – Roland Joffe, director of “There Be Dragons,” the new movie that dramatizes the early life of St. Josemaria Escriva, founder of Opus Dei, says he takes full responsibility for the finished product.Read More
ST. MARY-OF-THE-WOODS, Ind. – For cousins Jena Thralls and Ashley Vermillion, it’s just a short walk from their college dorm room to the site of their family’s special place in American Catholic history.Read More
On a sweltering August morning, Matthew Walinsky leaves the sanctuary of the AIDS hospice at St. Wenceslaus, Baltimore, where he resides, to volunteer around the corner at the Missionaries of Charity summer Bible camp. Though he appears robust, the 50-year-old former altar boy from St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Pasadena, suffers from a host of...Read More
Mary Pat Seurkamp, the first permanent lay president in the College of Notre Dame of Maryland’s 116-year history, will retire following the 2011-12 school year.Read More
VATICAN CITY – At least 20 church workers were killed in 2008, demonstrating that Catholic men and women – bishops, priests, religious and laity – continue placing their lives at risk in order to proclaim the Gospel and serve the poor, said the Vatican’s Fides news agency.Read More