Deborah Higgins didn’t know where to turn.Read More

VATICAN CITY – With the birth of Jesus, God came to the world as a defenseless child to conquer human pride, violence and greed with his love, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

JERUSALEM – Although politicians have failed to reach a solution to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Palestinians still face occupation, house demolitions and separated families, hope is still alive in the Holy Land, said Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal of Jerusalem.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Christmas is not a children’s fairytale, it is God’s answer to humanity’s thirst for real peace, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

The epiphany came around Thanksgiving. Colleen McDowell had reason to take stock. Her 2009 had been buffeted by a bout with cancer that had tested more than her physical health, shaking her independence, her routine and her self-admitted vanity.Read More

WASHINGTON – Times, as they say, are tough all over. And the economic troubles that have beset the United States, and much of the rest of the world, as a persistent recession reached its second anniversary also have touched the church.Read More

WASHINGTON – According to a recent FBI report, religious groups are not exempt from being targets of hatred.Read More

The New Testament reading that began this Advent season, from Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians, was filled with the tension between the “now” and the “not yet” of the two comings of the Messiah – a tension that was evidently an issue for the early church, and ought to be for us.Read More