VATICAN CITY – Addressing diplomats from around the world, Pope Benedict XVI warned that numerous armed conflicts and social disorders have left global stability in a fragile situation.Read More

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration’s decision to no longer support the federal Defense of Marriage Act is an “alarming and grave injustice,” said New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.Read More

Did you once use a Marriage Encounter weekend to get fired up about each other? You can rekindle your relationship and your memories of Marriage Encounter at the Worldwide Marriage Encounter International Convention in California this June.Read More

LOS ANGELES – More than 6,000 people assembled for two Masses Feb. 27 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels to observe a historic – and rare – transition of leadership in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.Read More

It’s hard to serve healthy, nutritious meals to kids belted in the backseat as you speed from an after-school practice for one kid to a 6 p.m. recreational practice for another.Read More

MANILA, Philippines – Filipinos trapped in the violent upheaval in Libya took refuge inside the cathedral of the apostolic vicariate of Tripoli as they awaited word that safe passage out of the country was secured, a missionary priest said.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The relics venerated as the crib the baby Jesus used in a Bethlehem grotto are in an alarming state of degradation, some church officials said.Read More

TOWSON – Anthony Day, the principal of Loyola Blakefield School, was about to lead a prayer the morning of Feb. 21, when one of his guests asked to do so.Read More