SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Diocese of Belleville’s Catholic Charities agency has joined three other Illinois Catholic Charities agencies in a lawsuit against the state seeking to continue operating their foster care and adoption programs since the passage of a law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples.Read More

CHERAN, Mexico – Father Antonio Mora ministers to a town under siege, where masked men guard checkpoints leading into town, the charred remains of logging trucks block roads and a banner across from his parish in the town square demands a military presence.Read More

WASHINGTON – As U.S. lawmakers continued to wrangle over a decision on the nation’s debt ceiling and proposed budget cuts, representatives of faith groups held a protest on Capitol Hill and Catholic leaders urged lawmakers to remember the nation’s poor and vulnerable people.Read More

Sulpician Father Phillip J. Brown has begun his tenure as the 15th rector of Theological College, the national diocesan seminary of The Catholic University of America.Read More

NEW DELHI – A rally by Christians and Muslims demanding equal rights for their dalit members blocked traffic in the main streets of the capital for several hours July 28.Read More

Italian Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Vatican nuncio to the United States, died late July 27 at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore after a hospitalization that began with lung surgery. He was 73.Read More

Someone once wisely said, “Money can’t buy happiness, but we’re all willing to give it a second chance!”Read More

Two of my favorite examples that depict God as an artisan forming his people are found in the pages of the Old Testament and in the writings of an early church father. In Chapter 18 of the Book of Jeremiah God identifies himself as the potter and the people of Israel as the clay in...Read More