LIMA, Peru – As protests over rising food costs spread around the globe, experts warn that high prices are here to stay, and Catholic bishops are calling for governments to take emergency measures to keep their poorest citizens from going hungry.Read More

Immigrant parishioners are living in fear of violence and persecution, Redemptorist Father Robert Wojtek believes.Read More

WASHINGTON – The controversy over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque a couple of blocks away from ground zero in New York is but the latest manifestation of a historic cycle of distrust of immigrants - and their faith.Read More

NEW YORK – Here is the text of Pope Benedict XVI’s homily at the Yankee Stadium Mass April 20.Read More

NEW YORK – Here is the text of Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks during his visit to Park East Synagogue in New York April 18.Read More

September and October are traditionally filled with some of year’s road-racing events. Some of the more popular events and those sponsored by institutions in the Archdiocese of Baltimore follow.Read More

MEXICO CITY – Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City denounced a recent Mexican Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of a same-sex marriage law in the nation’s capital as an “aberrant judgment.”Read More

WASHINGTON – Here is the text of Pope Benedict XVI’s greetings to the Jewish community for Passover (Pesach); his remarks were read at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center April 17.Read More