WASHINGTON – Even though the U.S. implementation date for the new Roman Missal has now been set, don’t expect to find an English translation of the missal for sale at your local Catholic bookstore any time soon.Read More

ST. FRANCIS, Wis. – Two years ago, Father Luke Strand, then a deacon in his last year of studies to become a priest of the Milwaukee Archdiocese, came into the spotlight for his unusual looking car.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Christians and other minorities affected by severe flooding in Pakistan are being discriminated against in government-run rescue and aid programs, said the director of pontifical missionary societies in Pakistan.Read More

One by one, hundreds of people placed a small, colored note card in a cross that sat in front of the altar of Cockeysville’s St. Joseph Church Aug. 19.Read More

LONDON – The Charity Commission for England and Wales has refused the adoption agency Catholic Care permission to amend its constitution so it can turn away gay and unmarried couples.Read More

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Former Sen. Ted Stevens gave the state of Alaska “not only great service,” but he “remains a model for the young to give their lives in service as well,” said retired Anchorage Archbishop Francis T. Hurley.Read More

These days the physical wounds of war are inflicted not so much by bullets as by explosives, especially the improvised explosive device (IED), the “roadside bomb,” which is used with such terrible effect by the Taliban in Afghanistan and insurgents in Iraq. As a result of this new kind of guerilla-style warfare, U.S. military combat...Read More

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien has asked four individuals to serve as guest columnists in August. The third is Sulpician Father Thomas R. Hurst, the president-rector of St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore.Read More