SPRING HILL, Tenn. (CNS) -- When General Motors filed the fourth-largest bankruptcy in U.S. history June 1, the shock waves were immediately felt at production plants and dealerships across the country, as well as in parishes and around kitchen tables in middle Tennessee.The 180 parishioners at St. Catherine Church in Columbia who are current or former GM employees were reacting to the news with anxiety and prayer, said pastor Father Davis Chackaleckel, a Missionary of St. Francis de Sales.St.

UNITED NATIONS (CNS) -- The international community must not forget the world's poor as it strives to solve the global economic crisis, warned Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's nuncio and permanent observer to the United Nations.Archbishop Migliore addressed the U.N.

DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) -- The world of cyberspace is causing real-world problems for a growing number of married couples, according to research conducted by ACCORD, the Irish bishops' agency providing care and support for marriage.For the past three years, ACCORD studied how often high levels of Internet usage were cited among the sources of marital conflict.John Farrelly, ACCORD's director of counseling services, said the issue is now "statistically significant," with 7 percent of ACCORD clients seen in the first half of 2009 reporting it as their primary problem."The ke

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A legal expert from Jesuit-run Fordham University School of Law in New York was relieved the Supreme Court did not overturn the 2006 reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, but he also believes the historic 1965 law was only given a stay."I was relieved," said Jerry H. Goldfeder, adjunct professor of election law at Fordham and special counsel at the New York law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. "During oral arguments, a number of the justices raised the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act.