A miracle confirmed and a date set From the New York Times Pope Benedict XVI moved his beloved predecessor one step closer to sainthood on Friday confirming a miracle by John Paul II and setting May 1 as the date of his beatification Benedict said in a decree on Friday that a French nun had b

Despite losing his job of 24 years, my father remains optimistic and focused.

This week Joseph G Bock looks at the unique role of Catholic N G O s in Haiti s recovery efforts following the earthquake that claimed the lives of over 220 000 people this past January Our intern P J Williams produced the slideshow below based on the article For more of America s co

Read the story from CNS s Sarah Delaney VATICAN CITY CNS -- Pope Benedict XVI and other church leaders said it was the moral responsibility of nations to guarantee access to health care for all of their citizens regardless of social and economic status or their ability to pay Access to adequate

Eboo Patel promotes interfaith dialogue as a defense agains anti-Islamic prejudice.

This week we have a video report on the short-term and long-term efforts to restore church artifacts and salvage church records in the Archdiocese of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina Archivists from around the country pitched in to save and catalogue items Watch the video below to learn more

Cardinal Cardinal Theodore E McCarrick Archbishop Emeritus of Washington recently traveled to the Middle East and spoke with Iraqi refugees there In a powerful piece in the The New York Review Of Books he described his experience The humanitarian consequences of this seven-year war on Iraqi civ

In their new book ldquo The Grand Design rdquo Stephen Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow provide a theory that attempts to answer the question ldquo How did the universe begin rdquo The answer Well it rsquo s definitely not God In ldquo A Brief History of Time rdquo Hawking allowed