NEW ORLEANS – U.S. communities of women and men religious need to reach out to young Catholics to let them know about religious life and those communities also should have a full-time vocations director, said a Mercy sister involved in a new major study of vocations.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Italian researchers have developed a method to repair a damaged heart using adult stem cells, and said it confirmed that the adult cells were more therapeutically useful than embryonic stem cells.Read More

ST. PAUL, Minn. – “Guess who just signed on?” a teenage girl says to a couple of her friends huddled around a computer monitor. “Sarah. You know, Sarah – sits in the back of science (class), never talks to anybody. You know, Miss Science Fair.”Read More

WASHINGTON – How much sin is in America?Read More

WASHINGTON – Pursuing a master of divinity degree “certainly isn’t the path to riches in this world, but it’s something I really like to do,” said Joe Kolar, a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.Read More

VATICAN CITY – In a lengthy article, the Vatican newspaper said the U.S. and British governments had detailed information about the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jews during World War II, but failed to act for many months and even suppressed reports about the extent of the Holocaust.Read More

VATICAN CITY– The Catholic Church increasingly relies on the ministry of permanent deacons, who must be experts in preaching the word of God and in outreach to the poor, said the prefect of the Congregation for Clergy.Read More

Although Dianna is homeless, she’s not looking for a handout; she’s interested in giving back. That’s why working with Benevolent Baskets, a theme gift basket business in place at My Sister’s Place, Baltimore, “has been a tremendously good experience,” she said.Read More