ST. PAUL, Minn. – From the huge windows of her downtown apartment, Mary Smith, 33, can look over the rooftops of St. Paul’s businesses. Her son, 2-year-old Khaliq Hall, can see the trains passing on the tracks to the west, along the Mississippi River.Read More

In celebration of the Year of St. Paul, the Archdiocese of Baltimore is sponsoring a pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. April 25.Read More

DETROIT – It was an event he witnessed while “still in grammar school” that helped shape Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony’s concern for immigrants.Read More

TULSA, Okla. – There were just seven Catholics when Marian E. Baker began attending Immaculate Conception Church in Poteau, located in a small rural area of southeastern Oklahoma.Read More

Strange that The Catholic Review would give Douglass Kmiec (CR, April 2) the space to present an ambiguous defense of President Barack Obama’s stem cell policy in the same issue that our Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien warns us that the current administra¬tion is “on track to live up to projections that it would be one...Read More

WASHINGTON – As Beth O’Reilly of Manassas, Va., grows larger with child, the Catholic mother of two other young children sees her home budget getting smaller as the economy becomes more unstable.Read More

CONYERS, Ga. – “I wanted to be a simple religious. A nobody would be the best thing,” said Trappist Father Luke Kot, who helped establish Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Monastery in Conyers 65 years ago.Read More

MANILA, Philippines – The Jolo vicariate in the southern Philippines plans to go ahead with Holy Week activities despite the state of emergency declared in Sulu province because of a hostage crisis.Read More