Regarding “Tuition bill for immigrants levels the playing field” (CR, March 24), documented immigrants deserve a level playing field. Unlawful invaders, of which there are millions in our country, deserve nothing from the United States. The Maryland Catholic Conference is wrong to support these lawbreakers. I’m forced to re-think my financial support to the church....Read More
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Archbishop Charles J. Chaput gave a frank response when asked why there is so much disunity among Catholics on the question of Catholics in political life standing clearly with the church on major moral issues such as abortion.Read More
From answering the phones to gracing the children’s play area, School Sister of Notre Dame Margaret Marie Giblin does a little bit of everything at the Esperanza Center – all while in her 80s.Read More
Henry and Marion Knott never allowed their 13 children to think they were better than anyone else. There were no family vacations until the children were all adults. The offspring had to be home before midnight and all were expected to contribute to the community at large.Read More
RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia became the seventh state to bar abortion coverage from being offered by private insurance companies through the new state-run health insurance exchanges that were mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the sweeping health-reform law passed last year by Congress.Read More
More than 1,000 are expected for the annual Archdiocesan Youth and Young Adult Pilgrimage in Baltimore April 16. A special invitation is extended to young adults 18-35 to join their high school counterparts in the four-mile walk, billed as “Jesus – Way, Truth & Life.”Read More
WASHINGTON – U.S. dioceses and religious orders received 505 new credible allegations of child sex abuse by clergy in 2010, a slight decrease from the previous year and a significant drop from the 1,092 new allegations reported in 2004, when the numbers began being tallied, according to a report released April 11 by the U.S....Read More
WASHINGTON – When two men alleged that they had been abused in Texas during the 1970s and ’80s by a man associated with the youth wing of the Knights of Columbus, they filed suit not in Texas but in Connecticut, where the Knights’ national headquarters is located.Read More
MANOGUAYABO, Dominican Republic – Until her son was born, Maria Rosa Remier never questioned her nationality. By all measures, she considered herself Dominican.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The cloistered Augustine nun who has written the meditations for Pope Benedict XVI’s Way of the Cross service said she strived for simplicity to give a voice to children who have been abused in the church and beyond.Read More
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Hundreds of Taiwanese Catholics, joined by immigrant Filipino workers, flocked to venerate a relic of St. John Bosco and followed the local custom of burning firecrackers to welcome its arrival.Read More