WASHINGTON – According to figures supplied by Free Press, the media-reform think tank and lobby group in Washington, the federal government spends about $1.35 per person per year on public media.Read More

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Although immigration is not always front and center in public political discussions, it is often “talked about in the back rooms” and is a key issue for both political parties, a speaker told a Colorado Springs conference.Read More

Pat Evans had big dreams when she helped coordinate a rosary-making campaign for U.S. servicemen six years ago at St. Mary in Annapolis.Read More

SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean Catholics joined Christians, Buddhists and members of other faiths who paid tribute to former President Roh Moo-hyun, reported the Asian church news agency UCA News.Read More

OMAHA, Neb. – In an effort to support Pope Benedict XVI's proclamation of the Year for Priests, a designated time to encourage and foster “spiritual perfection” in priests, the Institute for Priestly Formation will offer a 10-week summer program to equip diocesan seminarians and priests with ways to further guide the people of their parishes...Read More

WASHINGTON – Although the 30-day period for public comment on the National Institutes of Health's draft guidelines for funding of embryonic stem-cell research has ended, the U.S. bishops are continuing their campaign urging members of Congress not to permit such funding.Read More

MIAMI – Archbishop John C. Favalora of Miami expressed disappointment May 28 at both Father Alberto Cutie's decision to join the Episcopal Church and the public way he was received into his new church.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has condemned the latest round of nuclear testing and missile launching by North Korea, warning that these acts of aggression threaten “the very survival” of the country's own people by exacerbating its isolation.Read More