ORLANDO, Fla. – Erin Persinger is a good student at Bishop Verot High School in Fort Myers who enjoys volunteering in her community, hanging out with friends and participating in sports.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI said he hoped the U.S.-sponsored peace conference in Annapolis, Md., would help Palestinians and Israelis reach a “just and definitive solution.”Read More
Vincentian Father Vincent J. O’Malley had just preached on Sunday’s Gospel reading, warning that no one knows the hour when the Son of Man will come. Moments later, as the priest greeted people outside St. Joseph in Emmitsburg following the 10:15 a.m. liturgy, an automobile struck and killed two Mass-goers and seriously injured a third.Read More
WILMINGTON, Del. – The experience of God “is all family,” Kathleen Chesto told catechists of the Diocese of Wilmington during a recent diocesan catechetical congress.Read More
In response to Jack Schanberger’s doctrine question (CR, July 15), the Catechism of the Catholic Church states, “Direct abortion, that is, abortion that is willed as an end or a means, is a ‘criminal’ practice, gravely contrary to moral law” (CCC 2271). We are to protect the life of every human being as far as...Read More
VATICAN CITY – A lack of respect for the norms for celebrating the Mass after the Second Vatican Council contributed to Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to grant wider permission for the celebration of the Tridentine Mass, a Vatican official said.Read More
Encircled by 48 teenage attendees of the High School Leadership Institute inside the Monsignor O’Dwyer Retreat House in Sparks July 30, Paulist Father John F. Hurley looked pensive. He walked about a blue cloth that looked like a body of water.Read More
The holidays used to be Matthew Brown’s favorite time of the year. But since the 26-year-old Baltimorean became homeless, the approaching season hasn’t seemed so bright.Read More
WASHINGTON – More than 16 months after it began a world tour touching over 100 nations, a casket containing relics of St. John Bosco is scheduled to visit the United States and Canada beginning in mid-September.Read More
WASHINGTON – Although the United States has made progress in addressing human trafficking, more needs to be done to help trafficking victims, particularly children, said a U.S. Catholic official in testimony before a House committee.Read More
More than two years ago, a Congolese woman in her 40s was attacked and raped on her way home from selling produce at an Idjwi market. When she told her husband, they went to the village chief, who scolded the woman for resisting her two attackers.Read More
BALTIMORE – An ongoing study of the “causes and contexts” of the sexual abuse crisis in the church will touch on societal influences, the role of various aspects of seminary life and how church leaders’ response was a factor, according to the staff of the New York-based John Jay College of Criminal Justice in a...Read More