OAK ISLAND, Texas – The first day Cathy Tran arrived back on Oak Island after Hurricane Ike forced her to leave, she slept on the floor of her home. All she had was a floor – no roof, no walls, no possessions.Read More
LONDON – British Catholics have welcomed cautiously government proposals to abolish a law that has banned Catholics from the throne for more than three centuries.Read More
Amid the business attire, networking and note-taking that marked the Catholic Medical Association’s 77th annual Educational Conference, Patrick Thomeny stood out.Read More
As people stumbled in and out of busy Annapolis watering holes on a chilly Oct. 7 evening, a group of young adults sat on the second floor of the Dock Street Bar and Grill and just wanted to talk Catholic theology and politics.Read More
Put your money where your values are. It’s no small matter for Catholic investors, especially when it can be difficult to trace all the holdings of big companies or mutual funds, so as to be confident they’re in keeping with your values.Read More
WASHINGTON – Meeting less than a week after the election of a new U.S. president, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will discuss “the practical and pastoral implications of political support for abortion.”Read More
UNITED NATIONS – Human rights are best protected through disarmament and weapons nonproliferation, argued Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s apostolic nuncio to the United Nations.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church wants people to know and love the word of God – the Bible – so that they will come to know and love the Word of God – Jesus Christ.Read More
For Father William J. Watters, S.J., it marked a homecoming. Father Watters, who had served as pastor of St. Ignatius, Baltimore, from 1991 to 2005, returned to that position Oct. 4, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien announced.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Learning to pray with the Scriptures, improving homilies and ensuring an accurate interpretation of Bible passages were the major themes of formal presentations, open discussion and small-group work Oct. 7-8 at the world Synod of Bishops on the Bible.Read More
WASHINGTON – Following his public endorsement of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, a Catholic legal scholar has resigned from the board of trustees at Ohio’s Franciscan University of Steubenville.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The global financial crisis has been caused in part by greed and is likely to have grave repercussions on the world’s poor, said two Vatican officials.Read More