Helping orphans in El Salvador get an education

Victoria Cavanaugh is just 23, a 2007 graduate of Boston College, and, oh yeah, she founded Nuestro Ahora, a scholarship program for orphans in El Salvador. It’s a fledgling but remarkably ambitious endeavor, especially considering Cavanaugh started it just two years ago with money she had saved up from campus and summer jobs.
She recently talked [...]

‘Word cloud’ for the pope’s new encyclical

OK, I’ll admit I’m not a big fan of “word clouds,” those graphical representations of how often a particular word appears in a document. But this one works. CNS graphics artist Emily Thompson created it using the words that appear in Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”). The words “human” [...]

Pope says moral value must be part of economic recovery, development

(Cross-post from our Web site)
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Ethical values are needed to overcome the current global economic crisis as well as to eradicate hunger and promote the real development of all the world’s peoples, Pope Benedict XVI said in his new encyclical.
The document, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”) was [...]