Any pastoral agent working among Spanish speakers quickly encounters a phenomenon very distinctive of Hispanic religious practice – popular religiosity. Included in this broad category would be processions, novenas, religious plays and even dance.Read More

WASHINGTON – Specialty license plates offer motorists a chance to express pride in sports teams, the military and a variety of organizations, and for the past 10 years a different kind of plate has promoted adoption as an alternative to abortion.Read More

I thought Father Dietzen’s column on salvation (CR, June 4) clearly covered not only the chasm between God and man, but also God’s generous gifts to us. In response, Elaine Ireland (CR, June 18) states “if our focus is on our own salvation and our reason for doing for others is to gain that salvation,...Read More

In the first article on the Year for Priests by Father Thomas R. Hurst, it is stated, “ … the priest offers the one perfect sacrifice of Christ when he celebrates the Eucharist. He speaks and acts in the person of Christ. At the same time, he must offer his whole life as a sacrifice...Read More

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Father H. Timothy Vakoc, a Minnesota priest who was reportedly the first Army chaplain to be gravely injured in the Iraq War, died June 20. He was 49.Read More

Saying they were following in the footsteps of civil rights activists Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Dorothy Day, a contingent from the Archdiocese of Baltimore traveled to Washington to pray for immigration reform.Read More

(This is the first story in a series looking at diocesan reconfigurations through parish closings and mergers.) CLEVELAND – Just about every Sunday for the last dozen years, Pat Korcheck makes a 24-mile trek from her comfortable home in suburban Mentor to St. Cecilia Church in Cleveland's Mount Pleasant neighborhood for 9:30 a.m. Mass. She...Read More

ROME – Distributing condoms to teens in high schools in the Italian province of Rome trivializes sexuality and neglects the need to teach responsibility and respect, said the papal vicar for Rome.Read More