ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A priest who was involved in the canonical trial of a priest accused of abusing deaf children decades ago has admitted he made a mistake when he said then-Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland never told him to halt the trial.Read More

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With fewer and fewer Catholics going to confession, Pope Benedict XVI urged priests and seminarians to make the sacrament of penance a time for sinners to feel God's merciful love.Read More

Scouts of all ages packed St. Mark, Fallston, March 2, for the annual Archdiocesan Scout Mass. A rabbi also presented Cardinal William H. Keeler, an Eagle Scout, with The National Jewish Committee on Scouting Shofar Award.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Celebrating Palm Sunday Mass for 50,000 people at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI said the passion of Christ is a model for every Christian’s spiritual pilgrimage through life.Read More

DUBLIN, Ireland – Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Bishop John Magee of Cloyne, more than a year after the bishop requested that an apostolic administrator be appointed to run the diocese. As he stepped down March 24, Bishop Magee, 73, offered an apology to victims of abuse by clergy in his diocese.Read More

WASHINGTON – According to a new study on the religious affiliation of U.S. adults, 28 percent of Americans have either changed religious affiliations or claim no formal religion at all.Read More

If Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Essex, was going to regain the MIAA B Conference basketball crown in the near future, it was going to have to be this year as the Cougars are deep with senior leadership, experience and confidence.Read More

Quincy Lucas of Dover, Del. is a woman on a mission, and seven young people from Baltimore are taking her lead.Read More