WASHINGTON – Virginia executed 41-year-old Teresa Lewis with a lethal injection Sept. 23, making her the first woman to be executed in the commonwealth since 1912 and only the 12th woman to be put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Christians committed to building a world where all people recognize they are brothers and sisters need to share the good news of salvation in Christ, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

WASHINGTON – Haitian bishops were expected to agree Sept. 24 to the creation of a broad-based reconstruction program involving church partners from around the world that will guide how parishes and Catholic schools destroyed in the January earthquake are rebuilt.Read More

MANILA, Philippines – Officials in Pangasinan province said they would declare retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz persona non grata for telling a Senate hearing that the provincial governor benefited from illegal gambling.Read More

SANTA FE, N.M. – A 384-year-old local tradition of reverence and devotion to a 30-inch wooden statue of Mary has crossed over into New Mexico’s museum culture with the opening of “Threads of Devotion: The Wardrobe of La Conquistadora,” displaying a sample of the hundreds of garments in the statue’s wardrobe.Read More

ROME – Normally filled with theology students, the creaking classroom seats of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas were crammed with planetary scientists and astronomers from all over the world.Read More

WASHINGTON – It’s been five months since Gulf of Mexico shrimper Robin Palmisano has had a catch.Read More

WASHINGTON – In their 2008 book, “The Sexual Person,” theologians Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler “reach a whole range of conclusions that are contrary to Catholic teaching,” the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine said in a 24-page critique.Read More