WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The head of a Catholic health system has denied reports that the decision to put three hospitals in northeastern Pennsylvania up for sale was a result of the health care reform bill passed in March.Read More

UNITED NATIONS – Any discussion of disarmament and arms control must take several ideas into consideration and must understand the link between weapons reduction and people’s development, said the Vatican’s new representative to the United Nations.Read More

Since June 2009, 15 elementary schools and two high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore have been shuttered. All but one, St. Michael School in Frostburg, was in Baltimore City or Baltimore County.Read More

BEL AIR – When St. Margaret School eighth-grader Olivia Askey and her friends heard about a text-messaging contest that could bring one of America’s fastest-rising musical acts to their school, they rolled up their sleeves.Read More

Whether it’s on a volleyball court, an orphanage in Jamaica, or as co-president of a social justice movement among local Catholic high schools, Kate Browne leads.Read More

Two postcard portraits of the recently-beatified John Henry Newman have graced my office for years. One is a miniature painted by Sir William Charles Ross in 1845, the year of Newman’s reception into the Catholic Church. The second, by Emmeline Dean, gives us the aged cardinal, a year before his death in 1890. Between those...Read More

Sometimes a single sentence is worth a 30-day retreat. I was having lunch with two of the finest people on the planet. I won’t mention Theresa and Bernadette by name. Suffice it to say that these two wonderful people have made enormous contributions in the fields of education and medicine. They also love, and rescue,...Read More

ROME – Julien Kenord, a Haitian Caritas worker, was shot and killed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Caritas Internationalis reported.Read More