Cutting a cross into Irish soda bread dough before placing it in the oven serves both a scientific purpose and a spiritual one.

As we ve discussed here previously the ministry of women religious has expanded over the past decades Today s New York Times includes an excellent example of the way in which one sister uses her many talents as an academic adviser Xavier University s Division I student athletes Sister Rose Ann Fl

Cardinal Christoph Sch ouml nborn conservative Archbishop of Vienna and an ordinary to Austria s Eastern Rite Catholics said this question should be considered as part of an ldquo unflinching examination rdquo of the possible causes of the scandal From The Times These included ldquo the iss

From the Associated Press DUBLIN AP -- A Roman Catholic diocese at the center of Ireland s child-abuse scandals appealed Tuesday to its parishioners to cover some of its more than euro 10 million 14 million in bills to victims and lawyers Bishop Denis Brennan of Ferns the southeast Irish di

I can t say I always look forward to participating in the sacrament of Reconciliation Still I go Not as often as I should perhaps But I try There have been times when I ve felt that the priest barely listened to me or he reacted too harshly to what I had to say A reminder I suppose that whi

I first heard of St Josephine Bakhita during college when I saw her depicted in a stained-glass window in the main chapel on campus Intrigued by the image I read a bit about her life Born in 1869 to a wealthy family in Darfur she was kidnapped by Arab slave traders endured brutal treatment by

An article in The Washington Post features good news for parents who hope to find Catholic schools capable of providing services for children with disabilites Forty-two percent of Catholic elementary schools in the United States had a resource teacher to help students with special needs in 2008-09

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning has served as a spokesperson for St Vincent rsquo s Catholic hospital in Manhattan since 2006 and he plans to continue this work mdash but from now on he rsquo s doing it for free The New York Post reported that Manning will no longer accept compensation f

Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York spoke to a packed bar in midtown Manhattan Monday evening for the city s first Theology on Tap lecture of the year His topic of choice was the papacy in honor of the feast of the Chair of Peter and the talk was filled with a number of interesting and entertain