This is part of a series of reflections on How to Succeed in College Click on the author s name for previous entries A few years ago I visited a young family whose wedding I had performed and whose child the following Sunday morning I was about to baptize But the father whom I had taught

Check out the 60 Minutes segment on Mark Wahlberg the rapper turned acclaimed actor and producer The segment profiles Walhberg s tumultous childhood in Dorchester Massachusetts and features an interview with one of the few positive influences in his life a Catholic priest who noticed Wahlberg

Just released by the Vatican Caritas Internationalis works in the prevention of HIV infection and in the treatment and care of those living with HIV and AIDS Caritas Internationalis nbsp Secretary General Lesley-Anne Knight said nbsp The Pope s reported comments in this book illustrate the i

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi who will serve as House Minority Leader come January answers a few questions in the New York Times magazine She says among other things that she spends a great deal of her time at Sunday Mass she talks about her faith often thinking of her parents and a

Here is the CNS translation of a statement today by Fr Federico Lombardi the Vatican s spokesman At the end of Chapter 10 Chapter 11 in the English edition in the book ldquo Light of the World rdquo the pope responds to two questions about the struggle against AIDS and the use of the condom

As a journalist and commentator I have been followed the arguments over the morality of condoms in the context of Aids for some years nbsp Pope Benedict s remarks in Light of the World finally clarify this question ending the silence from Rome The point argued by moral theologians was always th