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When students living in off-campus housing at Santa Clara University in California sign up for the 'Living Green in the Neighborhood' program, they receive a decal to display on their [...]

FREDERICK, MD. -- Chris Wilson's father, 83, was murdered in 1994 by an acquaintance who broke into his home, likely to steal money. A week later, the man claimed another [...]

Last January, art therapist Deb Brass proposed a new project to her students at Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens, N.Y.: develop artwork based on superheroes and supervillains. The stories [...]

Nearly every month, supervisors, executives and others in positions of leadership at Avera Health System come together to reflect on the Catholic tradition of the businesses where they work. They [...]

BALTIMORE * Last May, St. Agnes Hospital opened its first new building in more than 50 years, a 200,000-square-foot addition to the existing campus, with 120 newly designed patient rooms, [...]

In downtown Asheville, N.C., across the street from the unemployment office, a couple of blocks away from the social services agency and less than a mile from the county jail, [...]

The questions began in June, almost immediately after the University of Louisville Hospital in Kentucky announced a three-way merger that would bring it under the umbrella of a Catholic health [...]

NEW YORK * In a student lounge at New York University, Amber Loosbrock sits on the floor surrounded by a group of young women, leading a lively discussion about sex, [...]

NEW YORK * As Jennifer Sawyer prepared the remarks she was to deliver on Jan. 29 at a Fordham University conference titled 'Lost? Twenty-Somethings and the Church,' she Googled 'spiritual [...]

In 2008, after 26 years working as a writer and producer for CBS News, Greg Kandra, newly ordained as deacon in the Brooklyn, N.Y., diocese, felt a calling to align [...]

Chaplain brings the grace of listening at patients' bedsides Every evening, when Lauren Ivory leaves Alexian Brothers Medical Center, where she works as a hospital chaplain, she tries to take [...]

NEW YORK -- Native American faith leaders who attended the interfaith service with Pope Francis at the 9/11 Memorial Museum Sept. 25 said being invited to the event was a [...]

BETHESDA, MD. * Haydee De Paula remembers the day her son, Ramon, then in elementary school, made up a song about the good things in his life. Moved by his [...]

WASHINGTON -- Last July, Cynthia Nordone and Helen Schietinger took a number at the District of Columbia Department of Health, waited in line and walked away with a document that [...]

WASHINGTON * Germain Stoddard says employers are impressed when they see the range of experience on his resume: nearly three decades spent working construction, landscaping, printing and furniture manufacturing jobs [...]

By 8 a.m. it is standing room only at the CASA de Maryland workers' center in Rockville, Md., where nearly 80 people have gathered since the early morning in search [...]

Whenever Jan Izlar, executive director of Southwest Medical Aid in Tucson, Ariz., receives a request for something, be it a wheelchair or a set of birthing beds, she said she [...]

Nearly 40 years ago, Eileen Ford was on a silent retreat at the house of the Cenacle Sisters in Middletown, Conn.--her first retreat ever--when she heard something that would lead [...]

When Sr. Gisella Chinguile walked onstage to receive her diploma from Marymount University in Arlington, Va., in May, wearing a cap and gown on top of her pale blue habit, [...]

SCRANTON, PA. * In a library lounge at Mary-wood University, three nuns from Africa who are students here gathered around a table recently, between summer school classes and meetings with [...]

Barbara Marx Hubbard, an evolutionary thinker who is to speak this summer before the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, is not Catholic or part of any mainstream religion. But she [...]

NEWARK, NJ. * As health care organizations continue to adapt to a changing business climate, industry insiders are paying close attention to a proposed deal that would bring seven Catholic [...]

From Alaska to South Texas, and from Oakland, Calif., to Washington, D.C., people gathered outside Catholic churches and cathedrals in about a dozen cities earlier this month to pray, sing [...]

International health and development professionals have welcomed news that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation might bring greater focus to family-planning efforts in the developing world, especially for sub-Saharan Africa. [...]

More than two years after a massive earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, much of the capital city remains in shambles, with nearly 500,000 people still living under tarps, a lack of [...]

WASHINGTON . Ever since Shonda Sneed of Yellow Springs, Ohio, lost her engineering job two years ago, she has depended on unemployment benefits to support herself and her 81-year-old mother. [...]

FAIRFIELD, CONN * In late October, on the day an out-of-season snowstorm some have called 'epic' and 'historic' broke nearly 200-year-old weather records and almost shut down parts of the [...]

As lawmakers debate how they will trim budgets everywhere and reduce the federal deficit, Catholic health care organizations, like the wider health care industry, continue to deal with the challenges [...]

BALTIMORE * The U.S. Catholic bishops voted Nov. 14 during their fall meeting to create a permanent subcommittee on health care issues under the Committee on Doctrine, replacing a task [...]

In the past few weeks, U.S. Catholic bishops, leaders of Catholic health care and charitable organizations, and leaders of educational institutions have spoken out in opposition to a proposed federal [...]

NEW YORK * One night during Holy Week last year, Kate Henley Averett was too upset to sleep, so she sat at her computer and wrote what she calls her [...]

Organization name: Awamaki Project: Awamaki Weaving Project Location: Patacancha Valley, Peru The women: 55 weavers,15 knitters, three seamstresses and two instructors from Quechua communities in Patacancha and Kelkanka, Peru Mary's [...]

Four universities in the New York City area will collaborate this fall on a conference series to address lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues in the Roman Catholic church, looking [...]

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. * Jose Cedillo used to work as a fabric salesman in Mexico City, but since he came to Staten Island four years ago he has been working [...]

NEW YORK * Speaking the evening of May 2 at Fordham University, where she is a professor of theology, St. Joseph Sr. Elizabeth Johnson described a well-known portion of Michelangelo's [...]

NEW YORK * When the DREAM Act failed in the Senate in December, Daniela Alulema said she and fellow members of the New York State Youth Leadership Council were 'heartbroken [...]

For the last year, Lauren Gentile and her husband, Geoff, have taught a class on natural family planning at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in New York City, advising [...]

NEW YORK * Media attention centered on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during the opening days of the May 3-28 nonproliferation review conference at the United Nations, as he defended his [...]

Franciscan Sr. Kathie Uhler has for months been working on a series of panel presentations to the United Nations that will show the damage exploitative mining has had on the [...]

Ask around in Bayou La Batre, Ala., and it will not take long to find someone who knows Dr. Regina Benjamin or has been a patient at the local clinic [...]

WASHINGTON * Catholic Health Association's president and CEO, Daughter of Charity Sr. Carol Keehan, said a recent agreement reached by several hospital groups and the White House, expected to reduce [...]

WASHINGTON * As they work with lawmakers this summer to help craft health care reform legislation, Catholic health ministry leaders say they will push for measures that will sustain principles […]

WASHINGTON * Sloane, 16, has a firm handshake and a polite smile. 'Nice to meet you,' he says, opening the door to the brick house that sits in a well-tended [...]

The loan cycle can be triggered by a sudden expense, like an emergency visit to the doctor, a car repair or an electric bill that must be paid before power [...]

Catholic activists supporting the Employee Free Choice Act--the labor movement's top legislative priority in Congress--say the bill is rooted in church social teaching inspired by papal encyclicals dating back more [...]