Last week, in a decision which surprised nearly everyone involved in the scientific community, federal district judge Royce C. Lamberth blocked President Barack Obama’s Executive Order of March, 2009 that allowed expanded federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.…

If you are looking for a good film to take the whole family to see you will flip for Flipped. The movie opens nationwide today (8/27) and Catholic Exchange writer Mark Armstrong had a chance to talk to Producer/Director Rob…

Six months after an earthquake devastated Haiti and the world rushed to help, it would seem that much of the world has forgotten Haiti.  Prior to the earthquake on January 12, 2010, Haiti was struggling with political unrest, environmental disasters…

Let’s not mince words here. We’ve got a problem. Last fall a new study published in the American Academy of Pediatrics’ journal Pediatrics found a parent-reported autism prevalence rate of one in every 91 American children, including one in 58 boys.

I am writing this at 38,000 feet somewhere between the JFK airport in New York and Minneapolis/St. Paul where we will be making our final connection in a couple of hours to our home in Bismarck, North Dakota.  If our…

You read about the warnings about how large the crowds will be when you enter places like the Vatican Museum or the Coliseum, but until you actually experience it, you have no idea how the mass of humanity will be. …

I have to admit I never really thought that I needed to see Rome or the Vatican to deepen my faith.  I was wrong.  All four of us will forever be changed by what we have seen, felt, touched and…

We left the beautiful hill country Of Lorenzana today with its olive trees and grape vineyards blooming.  We are bound for Rome via Assisi today.  The Tuscany region of Italy this time of year is green and the spring air…

There are certain Masses we all remember.  Some of us remember our First Communion, Confirmation, Marriage and other special ones.  I will always remember today when I took part in a Mass, concelebrated with 10 Italian priests in front of…

To call it a good day in Turin for us four pilgrims is an understatement.  We started with Mass at the Church of St. Charles Borremeo, one of the 68 Catholic churches in Turin. Each we walk in today will take our breath…