POSTVILLE, Iowa – Father Paul Ouderkirk has a nice house in northeastern Iowa where he was living in comfortable retirement, overseeing the banks of, as he calls it, “the mighty Missi-Sloppy.”Read More

WASHINGTON – As a soldier in World War II, he fought in the Battle of the Bulge and won many awards for bravery. As a priest for the Archdiocese of Washington, Monsignor William O’Donnell served as a pastor, administrator and editor of the Catholic Standard newspaper.Read More

WASHINGTON – As Justice David Souter prepares to retire this summer after 19 years on the Supreme Court, he leaves a mixed legacy of jurisprudence: not so friendly to pro-life perspectives on cases involving abortion, but sometimes strong for religious interests in First Amendment areas.Read More

Thanks to a lot of hard work, ingenuity and goodwill, fifth-graders at St. Louis School in Clarksville have transformed a $300 gift from their teacher into a $1,015 outreach campaign that is touching lives in their community, across the nation and around the world.Read More

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama in his April 29 press conference said the Freedom of Choice Act was not his “highest legislative priority” and that he is instead focusing on reducing unwanted pregnancies.Read More

WASHINGTON – Confirmed cases of swine flu caused two Catholic schools to close for one week in New York and California while fears of possible outbreaks closed two Catholic schools in California for a day until the reported student and faculty illnesses were determined not to be the virus.Read More

VATICAN CITY – In a step toward reconciling a long-standing historical injustice, Pope Benedict XVI expressed his sorrow for the suffering of Canadian aboriginal children over decades in church-run residential schools.Read More

WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services by a 61-35 vote April 28 and she was sworn in to the post hours later.Read More