VATICAN CITY – Vatican and Israeli representatives said they finally have a concrete plan for reaching an agreement on financial and juridical issues related to Catholic institutions in Israel. “The talks took place in an atmosphere of great cordiality, mutual understanding and good will, and produced important progress and hope for yet further advances in...Read More

Africans who were enslaved meant something to St. Peter Claver, and he gathered many volunteers to assist him in acts of mercy. It was these volunteers who altered, in a positive way, Peter Claver’s ministry when a ship was coming into port. The group also cared for the lepers and those with smallpox. On holy...Read More

PERTH, Australia – Incorporating traditionalist Anglicans into the Catholic Church must be a “slow, cautious and prudent” path of implementing Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic constitution, said the bishop in charge of the process in Australia.Read More

APARECIDA, Brazil – The changes which have occurred in Latin America in recent years are so profound that they require fundamental changes in the way the church approaches pastoral work, said a cardinal from Honduras. “We need a pastoral conversion,” Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa said. “If these are difficult times, new disciples are...Read More

Glyndon Bailey was just 20 years old and had never shot a gun in his life when he was drafted by the U.S. Army for World War II in April of 1943. Although the lanky non-commissioned officer said the Army taught him “pretty fast” how to shoot an M1903 bolt-action Springfield Rifle, the Catonsville native...Read More

When William B. Kauffman needed serenity in his life, he found comfort in the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes at Emmitsburg’s Mount St. Mary’s University.Read More

It all started when Tanya C. Terry saw a flyer from Holy Family School in Randallstown asking for volunteers. The Holy Family parishioner had a granddaughter in first grade, so she decided to step up and help out.Read More

HERODIUM, West Bank – After three and a half decades of scouring this dusty, heat-scorched mountainside, Israeli archaeologists said they have finally found the elusive tomb of King Herod the Great. The location and unique nature of the finds as well as the historical record leave no doubt that the finds are the remains of...Read More