WASHINGTON – After several months on a “real roller coaster,” federal funding for the AmeriCorps Education Awards Program run by the Catholic Volunteer Network is back to 75 percent of its funding level a year earlier.Read More
LIMA, Peru – Most of the environmental battles Brother Paul McAuley fights seem endless, mainly conflicts between indigenous communities and loggers operating on their lands or oil companies that have spilled toxic substances into their waterways.Read More
WASHINGTON – Comments made recently about the religious affiliation of presidential candidates – notably the Mormon faith of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney – have no place in American political campaigns, say several dozen academics, diplomats and other prominent Catholics.Read More
WASHINGTON – Under conference rules since 2008, the new heads of committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops get to shadow the current chairmen for a year as chairmen-elect. But the new chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace will get no such break-in period.Read More
WASHINGTON – The U.S. bishops’ fall general assembly in Baltimore will be shorter than usual and focus primarily on the inner workings of the church than on larger societal issues.Read More
ANAPRA, Mexico – The Mexican bishop often exchanged glances with his American counterpart as they celebrated the All Souls’ Day Mass. But instead of embracing at the kiss of peace, they touched palms - though the chain-link fence.Read More
I read with great interest (CR, Sept. 22) of the 100th anniversary of Blessed Sacrament Parish. My grandparents, William and Mary Ellen Kailer Dunn were founding members of the parish. She directed the choir there for many years; he opened the church for Mass and was a daily attendant for all the years of my...Read More
WASHINGTON – Officials with the Catholic Campaign for Human Development refuted a report that 55 agencies funded by the U.S. bishops’ anti-poverty program in 2010-11 were in conflict with church teaching.Read More
BEL AIR – On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold approached Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. and saw Rachel Scott sitting in some nearby grass with a friend.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI appealed for an end to violence in Nigeria and prayed for victims of the most recent wave of civil conflict there.Read More