Twelve-Step Spirituality saves lives every day. However, even the best programs are not best for everyone. Women For Sobriety, founded by Jean Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., has discovered that women who are not helped by the 12 Steps are helped by what they call the Thirteen Acceptance Statements.Read More
SEOUL, South Korea – An organization representing the Catholic Church joined a Seoul street campaign seeking to abolish of capital punishment in South Korea.Read More
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican did not endorse an 11-page final statement in favor of easing restrictions on and allowing more widespread use of genetically modified crops, especially in poorer nations, said a Vatican official.Read More
One year ago on All Souls’ Day, Susan Crane used a bolt cutter to rip open chain-link fences at a U.S. Navy nuclear weapons storage depot in Bangor, Wash.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI said the Catholic press has an irreplaceable role in forming Christian consciences and reflecting the church’s viewpoint on contemporary issues.Read More
WASHINGTON – Citing the Catholic Church’s concern for the sanctity of human life, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace called on U.S. senators to set aside politics and ratify the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.Read More
CHICAGO – The Catholic Conference of Illinois has urged the state’s General Assembly to reject a Senate bill legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples.Read More
VATICAN CITY – In his new book, Pope Benedict XVI strongly reaffirmed church teaching that homosexual acts are “disordered” and said homosexuality itself is “incompatible” with the priesthood.Read More
WASHINGTON – The year 1910 was quite the watershed year for U.S. Catholicism. Catholic Charities USA was founded a hundred years ago. So were the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, followed by the Maryknoll Sisters in 1912. The Crosiers, founded in Europe 700 years ago, decided to place their first outpost in the United States in...Read More