WASHINGTON – The president of Planned Parenthood confuses authentic health care with access to abortion and all forms of artificial contraception, said Deirdre A. McQuade, assistant director for policy and communications in the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities.Read More

As Mercy High School in Baltimore implements a president-principal administrative model, Pegeen D’Agostino has been named principal of the 450-student school. The parishioner of Corpus Christi in Baltimore will work closely with Mercy Sister Carol Wheeler, the longtime president of the all-girls school.Read More

WASHINGTON – Two participants in a nationwide teleconference organized by religious organizations that are supporting health care reform said they were optimistic that legislation will pass this year and that they don’t believe government funding of abortion will be a part of the bill.Read More

Sandra Spears knows that she is leading a purpose-driven life when she looks at her 26-year-old daughter, Ayanna Scott.Read More

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Without well-prepared priests, “the new evangelization” of society will be just a slogan, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

National Catholic Reporter, an independent national Catholic newspaper based in Kansas City, Mo., recently profiled Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien of Baltimore. Readers of The Catholic Review might find NCR senior correspondent John Allen Jr.’s article informative.Read More

Many in the hierarchy of the church of North America seem to have a clouded view on the proposals being offered by President Obama and the Democrats in Washington on how best to fix our health care system. On the one hand they advocate universal coverage based on the notion of some social justice need....Read More

As the Center for Disease Control estimates more than 40 percent of the country could contract H1N1 influenza without proper vaccination, the Archdiocese of Baltimore wants parishes to be prepared.Read More