NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Mary Ann Glendon, a professor at Harvard Law School who recently stepped down as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, will receive the University of Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal at commencement ceremonies May 17.Read More
LUANDA, Angola – Addressing Angolan political leaders and an international group of diplomats, Pope Benedict XVI appealed on behalf of African families struggling from the effects of poverty, disease and war.Read More
WASHINGTON – Seeing President Barack Obama’s first federal budget proposal in his still young administration, Catholic Charities officials and others committed to meeting the needs of the poor are breathing a bit easier.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The working document for this fall’s Synod of Bishops for Africa called for a united effort among Catholics to help end the rampant injustices fueling conflicts on the continent and to usher in an era of peace.Read More
VATICAN CITY – After more than four years in office, Pope Benedict XVI finally will be able to preside over his first event in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace.Read More
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien was surrounded by some of Maryland’s most prominent business and educational leaders as he started the first meeting of the Blue-Ribbon Committee charged with developing a long-term plan for Catholic schools March 18.Read More
Though she lasted only one day on the softball field for a lack of interest in sliding, Margy Teixeira would be playing baseball, too, if she had been born a boy.Read More
WASHINGTON – In generations past, Catholics in the United States sent missionaries to – among other places – Africa to evangelize its people and spread the Gospel.Read More
WASHINGTON – Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput commiserated with journalists who cover religion about the vitriolic hate mail they and he receive when they address topics such as who should receive the Eucharist.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The unbreakable bonds of marriage and the permanence of religious vows do not place artificial constraints on the freedom to love; rather they free a person to love forever, in good times and bad, said the preacher of the papal household.Read More
The Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Child and Youth Protection office is partnering with the Baltimore Child Abuse Center for two milestone informational events in April.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s first social encyclical is already completed and should be ready for release in early May, said a top Vatican official.Read More