Mexican dioceses urge generous response to flooding, landslides
A resident searches for survivors Sept. 29 buried after a landslide in Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec in the southern state of [...]
Evangelization is not a competition with other religions, pope says
VATICAN CITY –– As Catholics pursue their missionary duty, they must understand the church is not in competition with other [...]
Cardinal: ‘Let dignity of human life’ be election guide
WASHINGTON (CNS) – In a message marking Respect Life Month in October, the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities called on U.S. Catholics to join Pope Benedict XVI in a worldwide vigil "for all nascent human life" on the Saturday evening of Thanksgiving weekend.
New blow for border-area ranch family: Widow hit by a car after Mass
DOUGLAS, Ariz. –– An Arizona woman who has become the face of border-area problems since her husband's murder in March [...]
Patients at Catholic hospital supply placentas for stem-cell research
Bishop Robert N. Lynch of St. Petersburg, Fla., blesses the new Stemnion facility Sept. 23 in Clearwater, Fla. The Pittsburgh-based [...]
Suspect arrested in shooting death of Seton Hall University student
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. –– Police arrested one suspect and were seeking another Sept. 27 after a Seton Hall University student [...]
Promote peaceful use of nuclear energy, urges Vatican official
VATICAN CITY –– As nations are called to create a world free of atomic weapons, the international community must promote [...]
Catholic Worker groups part of faulty FBI probe, says new report
WASHINGTON –– A handful of Catholic Worker groups across the country were among the anti-war activists, environmentalists and animal-rights groups [...]
Archbishop Dolan says too many people don’t see that Jesus, church ‘are one’
LOS ANGELES – Jesus and the Catholic Church are one – "a package deal" that a disturbingly increasing number of [...]
Vatican bank head named in money-laundering probe
Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, head of the Vatican bank, is pictured during a meeting in Rome March 3. He has [...]