As I was reading the response from Suzanne Molino Singleton in “Practice makes perfect,” (CR, Dec. 13) who stated that “… no one –and no team – is perfect …” my initial thoughts were, “She is a Godly person. I would want her to be my friend. I would want her children to be my...Read More

VILLA MARIA, Pa. – A half-dozen 10-gallon buckets of firm, ripe tomatoes crowd the concrete floor of the workhouse room on the Villa Maria Farm that serves as a small store where customers can get a juicy taste of summer. Alongside, buckets of green and yellow peppers, some hot and some sweet, compete for attention....Read More

BETHLEHEM, West Bank – The rows of framed letters and baby pictures are testimony that the Milk Grotto – where Mary is said to have nursed Jesus as the Holy Family fled to Egypt – has been much more than a pilgrimage to many couples.Read More

WASHINGTON – Hundreds of Catholic Charities leaders and staffers took to Capitol Hill Sept. 28 to promote new legislation that they believe could transform the U.S. approach to fighting poverty.Read More

WASHINGTON – The clergy sex abuse scandal continued to have a major financial impact on U.S. Catholic dioceses in 2007 as multimillion-dollar settlements were reached with abuse victims and dioceses funded their share by selling church property, reducing staff and, in at least one case, soliciting contributions from priests and lay Catholics.Read More

SANTA FE, N.M. – A 384-year-old local tradition of reverence and devotion to a 30-inch wooden statue of Mary has crossed over into New Mexico’s museum culture with the opening of “Threads of Devotion: The Wardrobe of La Conquistadora,” displaying a sample of the hundreds of garments in the statue’s wardrobe.Read More

WASHINGTON – The American bishop who serves as president of Pax Christi USA has called for the end of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.Read More

Mary Catherine Bunting, the granddaughter of the founder of the Noxzema Chemical Co., never had to work.Read More