WASHINGTON – Jon Proctor knows the road to self-sufficiency is a long one. It’s even longer when the weekly paycheck totals a little more than $200.Read More

WASHINGTON – The U.S. bishops are working to mobilize Catholics across the country to tell the Obama administration that contraception and sterilization do not constitute preventive care for women and must not be mandated as part of health reform.Read More

VATICAN CITY – In the days leading to Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to his homeland Sept. 22-25, German media were asking whether the pope would feel at home in the country he left 30 years ago.Read More

ROME – A new book by a Catholic talk show host looks at how media and culture are sending unhealthy messages to women and how the church can fill the emotional and spiritual void left behind.Read More

EMMITSBURG – Mount St. Mary’s University held a housewarming of glorious proportions Sept. 13 for its historic, newly restored Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, the acknowledged heart of its seminary and college community.Read More

With the memory of 9/11 still an aching scar on the nation’s psyche, and in the wake of the many recent natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and floods, the government and people of the United States must develop a “culture of resiliency” in order to successfully absorb future onslaughts.Read More

WASHINGTON – Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the late Vatican nuncio to the United States, “viewed his diplomatic vocation, as an ambassador of the vicar of the crucified one, as an extension of the invitation to mercy, reconciliation, unity, peace and life inherent in the Triumph of the Cross,” Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York said...Read More

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has given the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X a formal “doctrinal preamble” listing several principles they must agree with in order to move toward full reconciliation with church.Read More