VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI told Baptist and Catholic representatives he hoped conversations between the two denominations “will bear abundant fruit for the progress of dialogue and the increase of understanding and cooperation.”Read More

The Sisters of the Most Precious Blood in O’Fallon, Missouri, faced an all-too-familiar challenge for religious communities in the early 1990s. While the number of sisters had shrunk dramatically from decades past, the community still maintained an enormous 200,000-square-foot motherhouse with 12 buildings resting on 42 acres of property at St. Mary’s Institute.Read More

LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony told archdiocesan priests in October that he was assaulted during the summer by a man who was angry over the church’s sexual abuse scandal, according to reports from priests who attended the annual meeting.Read More

As the scaffolding comes down around the Baltimore landmark St. Vincent de Paul, parishioners, pedestrians and motorists, as well as the homeless camped in front of the church, will see the cross replaced on the tower of one of the oldest Catholic church buildings in the city.Read More