There’s not a lot of frill or fluff that comes along with Pat Clatchey, Mount St. Joseph High School’s longtime head basketball coach.Read More

Ever since she was a baby, her mother beat her. Involved with drugs, her mother would leave her unattended, even as an infant and toddler. Sometimes she took the child to bars. She was just 9 when her mother was imprisoned for beating her. Her biological father was dead.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Giving in to lust hurts both the individual and other people, the preacher of the papal household told Pope Benedict XVI and top Vatican officials.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Perhaps even more than Michelangelo’s frescoes or the statue of Laocoon, the discouragingly long entrance line – often stretching half a mile – has become the modern emblem of the Vatican Museums.Read More

Catholic Review writer and parent Nancy Menefee Jackson, who volunteers as an assistant JV coach, thinks school sports practices are essential and recognizes the need for practices and games during holiday breaks. Catholic Review writer and parent Suzanne Molino Singleton thinks the opposite – free time is family time when kids deserve a break from...Read More

One objective seniors Mara Wild and Melanie Rae want to carry through before they graduate from the Institute of Notre Dame, Baltimore, is to upgrade the 11-year-old black onstage traveling curtains in the school auditorium. They have sewn holes in the curtains so many times, they were told to stop because repairs were obvious.Read More

PICKEREL, Wis. – Charlie Neitzel’s passion for working on automobiles helped land him a job this year at Northern Fiber Works in Crandon, where he built fiberglass race truck parts. “I like building stuff with my hands,” said Neitzel, 21.Read More

DHAKA, Bangladesh – After a day of trudging through the debris of wrecked homes handing out relief coupons to survivors of the recent cyclone, the president of the Bangladesh Catholic Students’ Movement was tired.Read More