DURBAN, South Africa - Although World Cup fever is sweeping South Africa, some Catholics are skeptical about its long-term effects. The German Catholic news agency KNA visited South Africa to talk to people about their expectations for the 64 soccer matches that begin in the country June 11.Read More

WASHINGTON – In a letter to U.S. bishops, the chairman of the board of Catholic Relief Services said the agency’s HIV/AIDS programs practice church teachings on condom use and abstinence before marriage.Read More

The Archbishop Spalding High School boys’ tennis team, as successful as it is, has an interesting team makeup this season: a volleyball player, a receiver from the football team and a new coach from the United States Military Academy at West Point.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The scandal of clerical abuse of minors must inspire bishops and priests to rediscover the need for penitence, purification, forgiveness and justice, Pope Benedict XVI told Italian bishops.Read More

At the conclusion of the current school year, 13 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore will close. The Catholic Review pays homage to those schools and their legacies, with capsules of six elementary schools this week, six more in the June 3 issue, and an article on The Cardinal Gibbons School in the June...Read More

In the article (CR, April 10) regarding FOX television possibly violating FCC broadcasting regulations, there was the following statement: “Longstanding FCC regulations forbid over-the-air radio and television stations from broadcasting ‘patently offensive’ material of a sexual or excretory nature between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. when children are mostly to be in...Read More

ROME – Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, died April 19 at Rome’s Pius XI clinic, where he had been hospitalized since early April with a respiratory infection. He was 72.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI and Bolivian President Evo Morales, meeting at the Vatican May 17, discussed the need to protect the environment.Read More