It was one of those beautiful days right after Easter. My friend – and mother of my cats– and I decided to make a pilgrimage to Emmitsburg.Read More

LONDON – The British government has defeated an attempt to amend a gay-hate-crimes bill that the Catholic Church claims will prohibit Christians from expressing their beliefs about marriage and family life.Read More

With the passing of the third anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that struck Christmas Day 2004, took the lives of an estimated 200,000 people and left millions more without homes, Catholic Relief Services President Ken Hackett reflects on the progress made in the region.Read More

As head of the emergency department at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Dr. Gail Cunningham has always worked hard to show compassion to her patients. A recent trip to Europe has inspired her to take that empathetic care to a new level.Read More

ROME – A lack of expert opinion in media coverage of the clerical sex abuse scandal has led to a climate of “moral panic,” which does nothing to help people understand the tragedy of abuse or keep children safe, said an influential Jesuit journal.Read More

Cardinal William H. Keeler received a note thanking him and the Archdiocese of Baltimore for its 2006 donation to the Pontifical Missions Societies from Cardinal Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.Read More

VATICAN CITY – As Pope Benedict XVI looks at his 2008 calendar, he’s no doubt recognizing that life doesn’t slow down after 80.Read More

I read that only 15 percent of Catholic children attend Catholic schools.Read More