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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (CNA) – The Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, have made waves across the nation for their rapid growth and their devout orthodoxy. Now, they are once again in the national spotlight, being featured on the popular Oprah...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (CNA) – A Catholic group is again leading a multInational prayer effort to organize one million rosaries for unborn babies. Participants will pray for an end to the "surgical and non-surgical killing of unborn human persons."
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WASHINGTON (CNS) – Just as St. Paul and the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel advised in their time, "we cannot fail to warn our brothers and sisters when a fundamental error has been made," said Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the...
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ROME (CNS) – Laying a wreath at a memorial to Roman Jews rounded up by the Nazis in 1943 and joining in a standing ovation to a dwindling group of Holocaust survivors, Pope Benedict XVI broke the ice with Rome's Jewish community even before he began t...
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WASHINGTON – Facing a growing humanitarian crisis after the largest earthquake in Haiti in two centuries, Catholic aid agencies and world governments were boosting efforts to respond to the needs of hundreds of thousands of injured and homeless.
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MIDDLETOWN – Xavier High School will devote Jan. 19-22 to prayer, awareness and fund-raising for the people of Haiti, which was struck by a catastrophic earthquake on Jan. 12.
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An injured woman holds her son as she walks to the hospital in Port-au-Prince Jan. 13 after a massive earthquake struck Haiti. (CNS photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Catholic Relief Services was preparing for "thousands and thousands" ...
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WASHINGTON (CAN) – With House and Senate leaders meeting behind closed doors to forge a health care overhaul bill, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has reactivated its grassroots campaign to encourage Catholics nationwide to te...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Malaysian Catholic bishops called the escalation of violence against Christian churches in their country a "worrisome and delicate," situation, according to Fides, the Vatican missionary news agency.
"The Malaysian Church is conc...
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NEWINGTON – St. Mary School at 652 Willard Ave. will host an enrollment open house with a special kindergarten session from 6:30-8 p.m.Jan. 19.
Families wishing to explore what a Catholic education can do for their children are being invited to visi...
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BRISTOL – St. Anthony School at 30 Pleasant St. will have an open house from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 31.
The school offers morning or all-day prekindergarten 3 and prekindergarten 4 as well as all-day kindergarten and classes for grades one through e...
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COMBAT OUTPOST SPIDER MONKEY, Afghanistan (CNS) – Like all Marines, Cpl. Matthew Munoz is there for his buddies, but the 23-year-old also has stepped forward to help tend to the spiritual well-being of his comrades in arms.
Cpl. Munoz is second i...
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NEW BRITAIN – As part of its observance of Catholic Schools Month, Sacred Heart School will sponsor "Career Day – 2010" from 8:30-10 a.m. and from 1-2 p.m. Jan. 27.
Organizers said they expect to have at least 50 speakers from various professions, ...
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Former death-row inmate Randy Steidl speaks in Indianapolis.
INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) – Seventeen years, three months and three weeks.
That's how long wrongfully convicted Illinois death-row inmate Randy Steidl was incarcerated at the Danville Correcti...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Vatican will decide how to proceed with the young woman responsible for knocking down the pope during Christmas Eve Mass only after it reviews medical and Vatican security reports, the Vatican spokesman said.
Susanna Maiolo, ...
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WASHINGTON (CNS) – The Senate should not approve its current health reform bill "without incorporating essential changes to ensure" that it "truly protects the life, dignity, consciences and health of all," the chairmen of three committees of the U.S....
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Tickets for Christmas Eve Mass with Pope Benedict XVI were in high demand and short supply this year.
There were not enough tickets available for all the people who wanted to attend the liturgy in St. Peter's Basilica, according ...
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WASHINGTON (CNS) – Although authentic reform of the nation's health system is "a public good, moral imperative and urgent national priority," the Senate version of health reform legislation "should not move forward in its current form," the heads o...
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. bishops again have urged U.S. senators to put Hyde amendment language into proposed health care reform legislation to prohibit federal funds from being used for elective abortion coverage.
Such a step, they said, would alig...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS ) – Pope Benedict XVI has made changes in church law to clarify the role of deacons and to remove an ambiguity about the marriage status of some Catholics.
The modifications were ordered by the pope in a document, "Omnium in Mente,"...
