ROME – The financial crisis rocking the United States and sending tremors through the world financial markets is proof that placing profit before any other value is an attitude bound to fail, said the Vatican secretary of state.Read More

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – A top leader of the Christian Family Movement in the United States called an initiative by the U.S. bishops to strengthen marriage “good for couples and good for society.” “It’s very exciting to see the Catholic Church encouraging people to treasure their own marriages,” said Lauri Przybysz, who shares the CFM presidency...Read More

WASHINGTON – Across the country – in group discussions, adult education programs, diocesan conferences, DVD presentations and Sunday Mass homilies – U.S. Catholics are taking a close look at the bishops’ 2007 document intended to help Catholic voters form their consciences on a variety of issues.Read More

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The Archdiocese of Los Angeles ordained 60 men to the permanent diaconate June 16. It was the largest group of deacons ordained at one time in the history of the archdiocese and possibly in the country.Read More

Retirement for Baltimore City’s former high-profile fire chief, William Goodwin, has been by his own account, a “bittersweet” experience.Read More

WARSAW, Poland – Polish justice officials have ordered an investigation after a national newspaper claimed a group of defrocked Catholic nuns threatened to commit mass suicide.Read More

WASHINGTON – Despite evidence that sex-selection abortions may be occurring in the United States, U.S. law affords “less protection from sex-based feticide” than India or China do, according to proposed legislation that is to be introduced soon in the House of Representatives.Read More

A funeral Mass was offered June 22 at The Villa in Baltimore for Sister Mary Rose Simms, R.S.M. Sister Mary Rose died June 19 of complications of pneumonia. She was 93.Read More