Hope has become a buzzword in 2008. The Archdiocese of Baltimore sent a clarion call, however, that it is not a passing phrase at its annual Institute for catechists.Read More
Improving relations between the United States and the Muslim world will depend on stronger diplomacy and better understanding between the two cultures, says Bishop Denis J. Madden, Baltimore’s urban vicar.Read More
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – With Zimbabwe’s power-sharing deal in jeopardy, the country’s leaders are playing politics at the expense of the suffering majority, a church official said.Read More
ROME – How to listen well to the word of God and how to proclaim it well have emerged as the key questions for the Synod of Bishops on the Bible, said Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago.Read More
The little boy from Italy clung to his mother’s hand as he stood on the deck of the boat and looked across New York Harbor to the Statue of Liberty.Read More
The Congolese people face desperate and dangerous living conditions in a country beset by war, disease and extreme poverty, said Archbishop Francois Maroy Rusengo of Bukavu, Congo.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI canonized four new saints, including the first native-born saint from India, where Christians recently have come under attack from Hindu gangs.Read More
HARTFORD, Conn. – The Connecticut Supreme Court’s Oct. 10 decision permitting same-sex marriage in the state was “a terribly regrettable exercise in judicial activism,” the state’s Catholic bishops said.Read More
Sister Maria del Fiat Miola was studying abroad in Italy during her junior year at Columbia University when she encountered a group of women at St. Peter’s Square who would change her life.Read More