WASHINGTON – As the political debate surrounding the country’s spending priorities, tax policy and reducing debt deepens, the faith community and social service advocates have mounted a campaign to prevent the needs of the poor and vulnerable from being heaped into the pile of expendables.Read More

The sky crackled with thunder, lightning danced and wind howled ferociously as rain covered the land, causing the rivers to overflow into the streets.Read More

Getting trapped for three days and four nights in a cramped 5-by-4 elevator is not most people’s idea of an opportunity for spiritual renewal. Then again, most people aren’t like Sister Margaret Geary.Read More

WASHINGTON – At a time when federal budget decisions “involve hard choices and much shared sacrifice,” a decision on whether to fund the Planned Parenthood Federation of America “is not one of those hard choices,” the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities told members of Congress.Read More

WASHINGTON – The decline of traditional marriage in America continues to affect students’ education and the future welfare of the Catholic Church, said a University of Virginia professor at a symposium at The Catholic University of America.Read More

WINTER PARK, Fla. – Far more than a visual freeze frame of a moment in time, the Stations of the Cross sculpted by Deacon Al Castellana for Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Winter Park compress the intensity of emotion as well.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The rights of circus and carnival workers must be protected and circus animals must be properly cared for and treated ethically, said a top Vatican official.Read More

GUATEMALA CITY – In what Catholic leaders deemed a bad example for society, Guatemala’s first couple divorced to allow now-former first lady Sandra Torres to run for president.Read More