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Middle-schoolers are growing in more ways than physically. In addition to height, deepened voices and acne issues, their spiritual lives are changing and forming as well.

They come with the weight of the caregiver role on their shoulders. Some take care of a parent with dementia. Others look after a spouse with physical disabilities. Some care for a loved one living in a facility.

Those urging the University of Notre Dame to rescind President Barack Obama’s invitation to speak at graduation have very short memories (CR, March 26). Then President George W. Bush spoke on the very same campus in 2001. He was ostensibly pro-life, but it is an undeniable fact that during his six years as chief executive of the state of Texas he presided over 152 executions, more than any other governor in the recent history of the United States. The Catholic Church is vehemently opposed to capital punishment, except in the gravest of circumstances.

The original April fool was the devil! He thought he had killed God, only to have Jesus rise from the dead three days later!

Several weeks ago, I wrote in this column about the calculated steps taken by President Barack Obama and his administration to dismantle laws aimed at protecting life. Following his immediate actions authorizing the use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortions overseas and stem-cell research here in the United States, the President is now preparing to strip healthcare workers of their conscience-informed right to refuse to perform abortions.

HONG KONG – Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo of Zhengding, 74, was taken from his residence in Hebei province March 30, the day the Vatican’s Commission for the Catholic Church in China began its meeting in Rome.

VATICAN CITY – In a letter to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Pope Benedict XVI urged leaders from the world’s wealthiest nations to stabilize financial markets without excluding families and the poor.

As a new parent at Woodmont Academy, I could not be happier with our decision to enroll our child in their Pre-K to 3 program. From the first day of school, my husband and I were both filled with a sense of comfort and peace. We learned and saw firsthand that the teachers put the students’ needs before their own each and every day. They adore the kids and treat each one as an individual, embracing his or her strengths but also his or her weaknesses. They are hands-down the best teachers I have ever seen. They go above and beyond to ensure that each child maximizes his or her own potential, offering love, support, encouragement and, most of all, grace to every child.

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has ordered an apostolic visitation of the institutions of the Legionaries of Christ following disclosures of sexual impropriety by the order’s late founder, Father Marcial Maciel Degollado.

SAO PAULO, Brazil – A wave of indignation has swept across Brazil’s Catholic community after a Vatican newspaper article criticized a Brazilian archbishop’s actions relating to the case of an abortion performed on a 9-year-old rape victim.