WASHINGTON – Citing concerns that some groups funded by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development fail to follow church teaching, Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt of Greensburg, Pa., has withdrawn support for the U.S. bishops’ nationwide anti-poverty program.Read More
VATICAN CITY – After nine years of work involving Vatican officials, English-speaking bishops around the world and hundreds of consultants, Pope Benedict XVI received a complete version of the English translation of the Roman Missal.Read More
EL PASO, Texas – An unidentified Mexican man and his wife, fearful to reveal their true identities, spoke recently to a group of reporters and immigration advocates in this border city about the violence that forced them to seek refuge in the United States.Read More
FARGO, N.D. – Noting that the cost of subsidizing the local college seminary program had reached $100,000 per student because of low enrollment, Bishop Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo announced that the diocese would discontinue the program at the end of the 2010-11 academic year.Read More
WASHINGTON – With a tangled set of six opinions, the Supreme Court ruled April 28 that it could be constitutional for the federal government to permit a large cross to stay within the boundaries of a national preserve in the California desert.Read More
Witness awakens vocations. Offered by the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI, this was the theme for the 47th World Day of Prayer for Vocations April 25. One man can make a difference. In Jesus Christ we know this to be true. In and through Christ this continues to be true for His priests. How does...Read More
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration, the archbishop of New York and the bishops of New Mexico have joined a growing chorus of opposition to Arizona’s new immigration bill.Read More
How great is our God? A question answered in so many facets, through the light and lives of more than 200 African-American youths in Baltimore, who showed just how great he is through song, dance, spoken word and other ministries.Read More
How do we understand someone rising from the dead? As we celebrate the seven weeks of the Easter Season, the 50 days from Easter to Pentecost, it seems clear from the Scriptures that there were stages of understanding for the first followers of Christ.Read More
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Church officials praised South African President Jacob Zuma for repeatedly testing for HIV and announcing his status, saying it indicated a new political willingness to address the AIDS epidemic in South Africa.Read More
TURIN, Italy – The Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be Christ’s burial cloth, offers Christians a way to contemplate God’s face and reflect on the meaning of Christian suffering, said an expert on sacred art.Read More