Bob Majchrzak walked through the front door of his Pasadena home reeling from tragic loss.Read More

SAN DIEGO – Their soccer team may be called the Martyrs, but that doesn’t mean seminarian Jacob Bertrand and his teammates will just let their opponents beat them. “We do recognize the irony,” Bertrand said in an interview by e-mail with The Southern Cross, newspaper of the San Diego Diocese. The Martyrs took their name...Read More

Just when it seems that preoccupation with economics will leave us in despair, sudden insights allow us to shed 600 years of history and reach a timeless look at our human nature. I refer to the key characters in British television comedies, Mrs. Slocum and Mr. Humphries, who are straight out of “The Canterbury Tales,”...Read More

VATICAN CITY – Celebrating Palm Sunday Mass at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI asked young people not to let the question of God drift out of their lives. The pope opened Holy Week with a procession and liturgy in St. Peter’s Square April 1, blessing palms and olive branches in memory of Christ’s triumphal entry...Read More

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will continue to monitor and have a dialogue with members of the Legionaries of Christ in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, as they respond to a series of requirements he made of them in June.Read More

Attendees sometimes find themselves standing in the hallway outside Sister Carol Cimino’s, S.S.J., meeting room as she delivers engaging sessions to packed audiences during the annual National Catholic Educational Association convention. The Clifton Park, N.Y., educational consultant “always draws a huge crowd,” said Brian Gray, editor of NCEA’s Momentum Magazine and part of the communication...Read More

The Catholic Committee of Appalachia (CCA) will distribute a DVD called “Climate Change: Our Faith Response” to all 27 Catholic dioceses in the Appalachian region.Read More

ROME – In connection with the sainthood cause of Pope John Paul II, a graphologist and a psychiatrist were called as expert witnesses in the investigation into the presumed healing of a nun suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Monsignor Slawomir Oder, the postulator of Pope John Paul’s cause, said the French diocese where the nun lives...Read More