In a city with the second-highest murder rate and highest violent crime rate in the country, peace can often feel like a hopeless cause in Detroit. But on a warm August night, with thunderstorms looming, at the corner of Gratiot and McClellan Avenues on the city’s east side, peace and prayer were on the lips of Detroiters, friends and strangers alike.
A Sept. 9 letter from USCCB officials to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stressed that a compromise could effectively be reached in the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive requirement.
Not many people know St. Teresa of Calcutta’s first U.S. visit was a trip to Las Vegas in 1960. That tidbit is one of an untold number of facts and perspectives to be gleaned from the Mother Teresa Collection at The Catholic University of America.
Fifteen years after United Flight 93 crashed in an open field in southern Pennsylvania, a small group of Catholics gathered in the stillness of the site to remember the people who sacrificed their lives so that others might live.
Health care got plenty of attention during previous presidential election campaigns, but this time around it is almost like a kid craning to see what is going on while other issues take the front seat.
When it came to championing the faith, G.K. Chesterton fought with “verve and passion, and panache” in his works, said Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron of Los Angeles, Calif. He reflected a deep attitude of love and joy, the bishop said. “Every page of Chesterton is like a bottle of champagne.”
by Beth Griffin, (CNS) – Fifteen years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks decimated the twin towers in lower Manhattan, the 1,776-foot One World Trade Center rises out of the ground, a palpable symbol of triumph and optimism. The tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere is the soaring, storied, centerpiece of a 16-acre complex that includes eight other major structures.
Today’s “economic and political forces have led to increasingly lowered economic prospects for Americans without access to higher education, which is having a direct impact on family health and stability,” said Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami.
Being busy, busy, busy led C. Vanessa White to neglect her health and suffer burnout. She spoke about getting back on track at the African National Eucharistic Congress, Aug. 5-7, in Washington, D.C.
The Pittsburgh Diocese said Bishop David A. Zubik is making every effort to achieve a swift negotiated solution to the diocese’s dispute with the federal government over religious freedom in relation to the federal contraceptive mandate, as directed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
