SAN FRANCISCO – Calling proposed California physician-assisted suicide legislation “strongly and implicitly anti-Catholic” and accusing its advocates of “trying to bend the Catholic Church’s moral teaching to the will of the culture of death agenda,” an international expert on bioethics urged listeners at a May 7 lecture to do everything in their power to help...Read More

I sympathize with Susan Crane’s frustration (CR, Dec. 2 and 16) with the U.S. Navy Nuclear weapons storage depot in Bangor, Wash. Nuclear weapons of any kind destroy entire cities, devastate the civilian population and destroy the infrastructure of a locality. All countries should welcome President Obama’s call for a test ban halt to the...Read More

Every Thursday morning Doctor Charles Edwards II runs from his home in Ruxton to his office in the Maryland Spine Center at Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore. The route is about nine miles. Dr. Edwards has been running since his days of cross country and track in middle school. When he was just 10 years old...Read More

WASHINGTON – A year from now, the liturgical celebrations of the Advent and Christmas seasons will have a different sound, as the new English translation of the third edition of the Roman Missal begins being used in U.S. parishes.Read More

I noticed several inaccuracies in the letter sent by Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen titled: “Scientists divided on issue of global warming” (CR, April 26). In this response I will address Dr. Sheahen’s comments on the consensus of scientist’s concerning human-induced climate change and his comments on recent global temperatures as compared to those of the...Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s recent comments on condom use in AIDS prevention do not signify a change in the church’s moral teaching or its pastoral practice, a note from the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation said.Read More

BEIJING (CNS) -- Studying abroad can help Chinese priests and nuns understand the universal church, but it also can cause a culture shock when they return to their country. Sister Pauline Yu Chunjing was 34 years old and still had one year of study left at New York's Fordham University when the Sisters of Our...Read More

DUBLIN – Ireland’s High Court ruled that a previously withheld chapter from a report on the Catholic Church’s mishandling of child abuse can now be published.Read More