Michael St. Martin is dreading David Arnold’s final game in a Mount St. Joseph soccer uniform.Read More

He was credited with having saved a billion lives in his lifetime.Read More

NEW YORK – Mary Ann Glendon was “the heroine of the Notre Dame commencement tragedy” in May, an official of the National Right to Life Committee said as the Harvard law professor and former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican received the organization’s Proudly Pro-Life Award Oct. 6.Read More

Years before dear St. Katharine Drexel founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for African and Native Americans; a Sister of Mercy began a series of schools in the South for people of color. It is ironic that many of the schools started by this Mercy Sister would be in the area where St. Katharine...Read More

We are in the midst of one of the most significant health care debates since the formation of Medicare. Why is this debate happening?Read More

WASHINGTON – Although a new poll showed a significant decline in support for abortion in the United States, an official of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life secretariat said the results would have been even more strongly pro-life if they had been grouped to truly reflect the current state of U.S. abortion law.Read More

A familiar face is returning to the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien has appointed Sister Maria Luz Ortiz as his new delegate to religious. The Mission Helper of the Sacred Heart, who previously served as director of the Archdiocesan Hispanic Pastoral Center in Baltimore, will begin her new assignment Oct. 15.Read More

VATICAN CITY – U.S. President Barack Obama was mentioned three times by two different bishops on the first full day of the special Synod of Bishops for Africa.Read More