By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A little more than a year after his controversial appearance at Notre Dame University, President Barack Obama has been invited to speak at Louisiana's Xavier University on August 29 to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
More than 30,000 pilgrims were evacuated from the Sanctuary of Lourdes on Sunday after French police received a warning that four bombs had been planted at the site.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Laws in the state of Louisiana that protect the profits of the funeral industry are being used to prevent a monastery of monks from selling handmade wooden caskets to support themselves.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
State law is forcing the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin to begin offering its employees insurance coverage for birth control.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Three men from Kentucky who attempted to sue the Vatican for alleged sex abuse by priests have decided to drop their case.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Authorities in the southern Italian town of Pietrelcina say thieves broke into the chapel at San Giovanni Rotondo this past weekend and attempted to steal a gold reliquary containing relics of the famed Capuchin mystic, St. Pio.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Cardinal Francis George, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, decried the August 4 decision of a federal judge to overturn a California voters' 2008 initiative known as Proposition 8 that protected marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
While conducting an excavation beneath a 5th century monastery on the Black Sea, Bulgarian archeologists unearthed an alabaster reliquary containing bones they believe may have belonged to St. John the Baptist.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The new president of the Pontifical Academy for Life has announced that his dicastery is planning to publish a new document on the after-effects of abortion which is expected to be completed next year.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Only hours after a federal judge blocked certain provisions in the controversial Arizona immigration law from taking effect, a spokesman for the Arizona Catholic Conference said the bishops are pleased with the decision, but are still hoping for immigration reform on the federal level.
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