WASHINGTON – Representatives from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services in a telephone press conference Sept. 23 called on the major parties’ presidential candidates to lay out their foreign policy strategies in relation to the world’s poor and overseas assistance.Read More

VATICAN CITY – A year after Pope Benedict XVI opened the way to wider use of the Tridentine Mass, implementation of the papal directive is drawing mixed reviews from its target audience.Read More

Latin American crew members finally set foot on land after being detained for five months aboard a cargo ship in the Port of Baltimore.Read More

The worshippers of St. James Mission in Boonsboro couldn’t believe what Father Stephen E. Hook said.Read More

WASHINGTON – The combined hurricanes and tropical storms that have devastated U.S. communities and Caribbean nations in the past few months has exceeded the damage Hurricane Katrina inflicted on New Orleans in 2005, but donations for relief efforts this time are drastically less.Read More

WASHINGTON – Carl A. Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, wants to talk with Sen. Joseph Biden, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate.Read More

Renounce your Catholic faith, his boss said, and convert to Muslim. James Okeny refused, and lost his job as a result.Read More

WASHINGTON – The upheavals in U.S. credit markets this year, which intensified in September, have left those responsible for some of the nation’s largest Catholic institutional investments a bit leery.Read More