TORONTO – When Sister Henriqueta Cavalcante answers her cell phone, she does not know if she’ll get another death threat for trying to expose an underground culture of sexual violence against children in the Brazilian state of Para.Read More
BRAINTREE, Mass. – German Cardinal Walter Kasper, the Vatican’s top official on Catholic-Jewish relations, said March 25 that not only must the Holocaust never be permitted to recur, but that Holocaust denial must likewise never happen again.Read More
Jackie Boswell is exhibit A in support of the management credo, that if you want a task done, assign it to a worker whose schedule is already full.Read More
Albert and Abby Scharbach took bites of fruits, crackers and cheese inside their Federal Hill home, which they only moved into just before Lent.Read More
Middle-schoolers are growing in more ways than physically. In addition to height, deepened voices and acne issues, their spiritual lives are changing and forming as well.Read More
They come with the weight of the caregiver role on their shoulders. Some take care of a parent with dementia. Others look after a spouse with physical disabilities. Some care for a loved one living in a facility.Read More
Those urging the University of Notre Dame to rescind President Barack Obama’s invitation to speak at graduation have very short memories (CR, March 26). Then President George W. Bush spoke on the very same campus in 2001. He was ostensibly pro-life, but it is an undeniable fact that during his six years as chief executive...Read More
Several weeks ago, I wrote in this column about the calculated steps taken by President Barack Obama and his administration to dismantle laws aimed at protecting life. Following his immediate actions authorizing the use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortions overseas and stem-cell research here in the United States, the President is now preparing to...Read More
ROME – The drowning death of hundreds of people trying to immigrate to Europe through Libya in late March is a sign of the desperation of the poor and persecuted, and of the failure of government efforts to stop illegal immigration, several Catholic agencies said.Read More
HONG KONG – Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo of Zhengding, 74, was taken from his residence in Hebei province March 30, the day the Vatican’s Commission for the Catholic Church in China began its meeting in Rome.Read More
VATICAN CITY – In a letter to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Pope Benedict XVI urged leaders from the world’s wealthiest nations to stabilize financial markets without excluding families and the poor.Read More