WASHINGTON – A proposed revision to the directives that guide Catholic heath care facilities would clarify that patients with chronic conditions who are not imminently dying should receive food and water by “medically assisted” means if they cannot take them normally.Read More

WASHINGTON – Catholic aid agencies were assessing the humanitarian situation in Myanmar after a cyclone hit the Southeast Asian country and killed thousands.Read More

U.S. Army Lt. Lynette Jefferson may be serving thousands of miles away in Iraq, but she is certainly present in the hearts and minds of the parishioners of St. Luke, Edgemere.Read More

BRASILIA, Brazil – A new partnership between Brazil’s Catholic bishops and the federal Ministry of Health is designed to get more Brazilians into clinics to be tested for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.Read More

There have been a few instances where I had the honor and pleasure of seeing a sneak preview of a movie before it was released in theaters. A few years back, one of those movies included “The Nativity Story.”Read More

VATICAN CITY – In a survey conducted in nine countries in anticipation of the October world Synod of Bishops on the Bible, 75 percent of U.S. residents interviewed said they read a Bible passage in the previous 12 months.Read More

ORLANDO, Fla. – An expanded role for professional lay ministers is high on the list of possible models for pastoral leadership that emerged from an unprecedented gathering in Orlando of 1,200 Catholics – clergy, religious and laity – preparing for the future of a changing church.Read More

BELLEVILLE, Ill. – Car payments, school fees, new tires, insurance payments, even funeral costs: Sometimes the money to keep a person from slipping over the edge just isn’t available.Read More