A Mass of Christian Burial for Deacon Herschel Steward was celebrated March 22 at St. Francis de Sales Parish in Lebanon. Deacon Steward, 73, died March 17.

March 29, 2012 By Stephen Trosley, Editor-in-Chief   Letter writers use newspaper columns to share ideas, to criticize and endorse, to challenge others, to vent their righteous (and sometimes unjustified) anger and to just rant.  

March 29, 2012 What drew you to religious life? What are your hopes? What are the challenges that face religious life today? What role do you see those in religious life and your and congregation having in the New Evangelization and the Year of Faith?

March 29, 2012 Dear Friends in Christ, In late April, our archdiocese will take up the Catholic Relief Services collection.  

March 28, 2012 By Tom Tracy, Catholic News Service SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba (CNS) – Last summer, before the press reported that Pope Benedict XVI was considering a visit to Cuba, Nancy Hilburn’s Cuban-American friends introduced her to Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre.  

March 28, 2012 By Wallice J. de la Vega, Catholic News Service EL COBRE, Cuba (CNS) – At first sight, it looked like a sleepy town without much to offer the people who just seemed to be counting the passing seconds.  

March 28, 2012 By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service HAVANA (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI spent more than 40 minutes meeting privately with Cuban President Raul Castro and asked the Cuban leader for further freedoms for the Catholic Church in Cuba and attention to certain “humanitarian” situations.  

March 28, 2012 By Francis X. Rocca, Catholic News Service HAVANA (CNS) – A few hours before they planned to attend an outdoor Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, members of a Catholic dissident group were reportedly arrested by Cuban police.  

March 27, 2012 By Catholic News Service EL COBRE, Cuba (CNS) – Entrusting people to Mary’s maternal care is a normal Catholic practice, but when Pope Benedict XVI prayed that Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre would wrap her golden mantle around the people of Cuba, it was particularly …

March 27, 2012 By Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service A lot has changed since the Franciscan friars of Cincinnati published the first issue of St. Anthony Messenger, a monthly publication for secular Franciscans, in 1893.