In a typically excellent column, Priest Magazine editor Monsignor Owen Campion tells the story of an aging rural pastor of three mission churches in the Midwest during the early 1940s.Read More
NEW ORLEANS – Dressed in T-shirts emblazoned with the phrase “Volunteer, Make it a Habit,” about 80 nuns from congregations nationwide worked side by side in New Orleans Oct. 5-9, swinging hammers and hanging wallboard in homes devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.Read More
CALCUTTA, India – India will not yield to Albania’s request to hand over the remains of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, an Indian government spokesman confirmed.Read More
Martha and Mary would have felt at home with the 300 women gathered at the feet of a fleet of teachers at the first Illuminate Women’s Conference Oct. 10, held at St. John Parish in Westminster.Read More
Michael R. Smith (CR, Sept. 17) “Would someone please explain to me why my daughter is watching a speech, during her school day, delivered by a pro-choice president?”Read More
ROME – Walking into St. Peter’s Square Oct. 11 and seeing the huge portrait of St. Jeanne Jugan filled Mother Alice Marie Jones with a sense of thanks to God. Hanging from the façade of St. Peter’s Basilica, the tapestry portrayed the likeness of the foundress of Mother Alice Marie’s own Little Sisters of the...Read More
WASHINGTON – Long-term development and humanitarian assistance, protecting civilians and dealing with the root causes of terrorism should be among the guiding principles of how the United States deals with problems in Afghanistan and Pakistan, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace.Read More
PAGADIAN, Philippines – Catholic and Muslim leaders in the southern Philippines have appealed to kidnappers to release Irish Columban Father Michael Sinnott.Read More
Alayna Albertie looked around the 2009 OppenheimerFunds/NFTE National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge in New York Oct. 7 and noticed something very quickly. She was the youngest competitor by five years.Read More
VATICAN CITY – News that U.S. President Barack Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was met with high hopes from the Vatican spokesman.Read More