MONTREAL – Just 73 years after his death, Brother Andre Bessette will become the first Canadian-born man elevated to sainthood.Read More

WASHINGTON – As Democratic and Republican leaders gathered in Washington for a health care summit convened by President Barack Obama, the U.S. bishops and other Catholic leaders urged all parties to commit themselves to health care reform that is affordable, accessible and protects the life and dignity of every person.Read More

LONDON – In the silence of St Joseph’s Convent in Leeds each morning, Sister Catherine dresses herself in a gray habit. She fixes a black veil on her head and fastens to her waist a cord tied into three knots – representing the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience – and she slips her...Read More

PORTLAND, Ore. – There’s a move under way to seek Vatican approval for a patron saint of human trafficking and slavery victims.Read More

Many times the contribution that the Catholic Hispanic deposits in the collection of the church is not what many pastors would like to receive. Some of them may even think that they are not as generous to the church. The truth is that Hispanics split their small income between sustaining family in this country, and...Read More

Lent is a time, not to hurt ourselves, but to die to ourselves so that we can live life to its fullest. Many of our penances – giving up sweets or cigarettes or alcohol, as well intentioned as they are – end up making us more self-absorbed. We are never so conscious of our tooth...Read More

A memorial Mass for Hilbert Dennis Stanley, former executive director of the National Black Catholic Congress and a prominent educator, was to be offered Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. at St. Bernardine in Baltimore. Stanley died Feb. 12. He was 78.Read More

WASHINGTON – If the United States is to engage the world in a more effective and meaningful way, it must broaden its view of the role of religion in other countries beyond terrorism and counterterrorism strategies, a new report concluded.Read More