WASHINGTON – Warning that a failure to protect conscience rights would move the country “from democracy to despotism,” Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago urged U.S. Catholics to tell the Obama administration that they “want conscience protections to remain strongly in place.”Read More
Midway through his U.S. visit, Pope Benedict XVI told Catholic college and university presidents that using a Catholic campus as a platform to teach something that contradicts the church’s teaching is an abuse of academic freedom. Commenting on that remark, Father Thomas Reese, S.J., offered an interesting slant. “In a sense, he’s exercising his own...Read More
WASHINGTON – After President Barack Obama signed the Budget Control Act Aug. 2 to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, a collective sigh of tentative relief was immediately followed by plenty of speculation and analysis of what the country should do next.Read More
VATICAN CITY – In a letter to the world’s bishops, Pope Benedict XVI expressed regret that his lifting of the excommunications of four traditionalist bishops gave rise to a storm of protests and bitterness.Read More
The annual collection to benefit seminarians in the Archdiocese of Baltimore will take place May 3-4 in parishes. This is the only collection throughout the year that supports the archdiocese’s effort to form and educate men to become priests. All proceeds directly support the educational costs related to seminary formation. Each seminarian is formed pastorally,...Read More
I’ve noticed that there are some Catholic politicians who will say that they are against the death penalty because it goes against their Catholic beliefs that all life is sacred and that no one should take another person’s life.Read More
CHICAGO – Elvira Sosa never saw herself as a military mother. No one in her family, or her husband Pedro’s family, had ever served in uniform.Read More
When it was first announced in February that St. Michael Parish in Fells Point was closing and joining an expanding bilingual community at Sacred Heart of Jesus a mile away in Highlandtown, longtime parishioner Pamela Perc wasn’t sure what to do.Read More
About 500 Catholic and private school students, parents and teachers lobbied state officials March 4 with the hope of securing support for a crucial education bill.Read More
SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy – Venerating the relics of St. Padre Pio is a reminder that the saints were real men and women who lived for God, said Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes.Read More
Four existing U.S. provinces of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul are merging into a single province to be known as the “Province of St. Louise.”Read More