ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. – Welcomed by U.S. President George W. Bush and an array of church officials, Pope Benedict XVI began his first pastoral visit to the United States as pope April 15.Read More

MEXICO CITY – The Mexican Catholic bishops’ conference has criticized federal police for bursting into a Mass in Mexico’s western Michoacan state to apprehend an alleged drug-cartel lieutenant.Read More

DUBLIN, Ireland - The Irish government is clamping down on the sale of pre-signed Mass cards at newsstands and by other vendors.Read More

MAINZ, Germany – A German cardinal said a report detailing how the church used slave laborers during World War II was an “important building block” for reconciliation.Read More

Leaders of the Maryland Catholic Conference made progress on a wide range of issues during this year’s Maryland General Assembly, but a reluctant legislature failed to give them a lot of what they hoped for.Read More

Too often we hear people saying that we are in a crisis of vocations, and that the number of priests is too small for the huge needs of the church. Is that true? Well, it depends how one sees reality.Read More

ROMANO CANAVESE, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI thanked the doctors who treated his broken wrist and thanked everyone who prayed and expressed their concern for him.Read More

She has been the president and principal of Baltimore’s Mercy High School for 31 years, and may have held such a position longer than anyone else in Catholic secondary education. But, Sister Carol Wheeler R.S.M., somehow retains the creative energy, freshness and vision she had when she came to the newly opened Mercy as a...Read More