CALABASAS, Calif. – A Sister of St. Louis was killed and the retired pastor of a Malibu parish was severely injured when a car driven by Douglas Kmiec, U.S. ambassador to Malta, crashed into a drainage ditch in Southern California Aug. 25.Read More

WARSAW, Poland – A national Catholic newspaper has become Poland’s top-selling weekly, outstripping its secular competitors.Read More

OXFORD, England – Germany’s Catholic bishops have approved new guidelines for handling claims of sex abuse by church personnel to facilitate cooperation with law enforcement bodies.Read More

With so many negative responses to Tony Magliano’s Aug. 5 column, readers of the Catholic Review are apt to walk away with the clearly erroneous belief that the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could be justified within the Catholic moral tradition. I respectfully insist that the Catholic Review dispel any such misconception. Without wanting...Read More

MULTAN, Pakistan – A Pakistani Catholic bishop and his Protestant counterpart led a convoy of food and bottled water to southern Punjab province, where five districts are submerged under floodwaters.Read More

MEXICO CITY – Catholics in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas offered prayers for the 72 undocumented migrants from Central and South America whose bodies were discovered Aug. 24 in what was possibly the largest mass slaying since the country began cracking down on drug cartels and organized crime.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Blessed Teresa of Calcutta is “an exemplary model of Christian virtue” who showed the world that an authentic love for others opens the door to knowing and being with God, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaskans passed a ballot initiative Aug. 24 that requires abortionists to notify a parent before performing an abortion on a minor girl in Alaska.Read More