WASHINGTON – Iraqis want a return to peace, security and stability and the chance to secure meaningful employment, said two U.S. bishops who traveled to Baghdad in a demonstration of the American Catholic Church’s solidarity with the country’s violence-weary Christians.Read More

PARKTON – As the 2010-11 school year concluded, Greg Baum ran into Jack Buchner’s office at Our Lady of Grace Parish.Read More

When Patricia Modell was presented the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross – a special papal honor, she called the recognition “absolutely wonderful,” but quickly added a caveat.Read More

MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderon inaugurated the new Plaza Mariana Oct. 12 adjacent to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, but credit for rescuing the project from budgetary and political problems went to the world’s richest man, Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu.Read More

Robert Simmons knows the challenges of inner city education. As a product of Detroit, the assistant professor of Loyola University Maryland also teaches high school in Southeast Washington.Read More

Though a Catholic since birth, I do not understand the concept of “Catholic guilt.” Many Saturdays I watched my nephews play basketball. During every time out and at halftime, their coach would point out all the things they were doing wrong. Often the referee would stop the game with a shrill whistle and loudly announce...Read More

LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. – The greatest challenge faced by Catholic health care workers is growing secularism, said Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez.Read More

JESUS DE OTORO, Honduras – The “Red Bishop” of Honduras says he will run for president of the Central American nation if he gets permission from Pope Benedict XVI.Read More