It’s estimated that Baby Boomers have walked an estimated 50,000 miles during their lifetime. Just like you’d take your car in for preventive maintenance when it hits that milestone, your body needs the same type of care in order to keep running. That’s why Good Samaritan Hospital created a convenient 50,000 Mile Check-Up for people.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church wants people to know and love the word of God – the Bible – so that they will come to know and love the Word of God – Jesus Christ.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI asked the government of Turkey to grant full legal recognition to the Catholic Church and to establish a formal dialogue with the nation’s Catholic bishops to work out concrete problems. Welcoming Muammer Dogan Akdur as Turkey’s new ambassador to the Vatican Jan. 19, the pope said that while Turkish...Read More
BRAINTREE, Mass. – A new Catholic schools admission policy in the Archdiocese of Boston says schools must “not discriminate against or exclude any categories of students” while at the same time acknowledging the autonomy of parish and school officials to make admissions decisions at the local level.Read More
Delivering a fiery speech Oct. 6 at the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Conference for Catholic Educators, superintendent Dr. Ronald J. Valenti told a crowd of hundreds that the fight for financial equality among schools has begun.Read More
Havenwood Presbyterian Church in Lutherville will hold an ecumenical prayer service on Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. as part of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The current global financial crisis illustrates why it is a mistake to build a life on passing realities like money and success, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More
WASHINGTON. (CNS) – A federal judge in Louisville, Ky., has denied a Vatican request to dismiss a sex abuse lawsuit seeking damages from the Holy See. U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II ruled Jan. 11 that U.S. bishops and priests are employees of the Vatican within the terms of the Federal Sovereign Immunity Act.Read More
WARSAW, Poland – Polish Catholics have criticized plans by authorities in the southern city of Czestochowa to impose a tax on visitors to the Jasna Gora national shrine.Read More
GALVESTON, Texas – An hour prior to Mass, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston was walking around the grounds of St. Patrick Church, taking time to speak with those who showed up early for the first Mass on Galveston Island since it was battered by Hurricane Ike Sept. 13.Read More
LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The message that women are worth more than their appearance, social status or monetary income is something that Catholic author Cheryl Dickow has tried to get across in her nonfiction books and now hopes also to do through fiction writing. The author of “Reclaiming Your Christian Self in a Secular World:...Read More