VATICAN CITY – A common understanding of the role the bishop of Rome played in the united Christianity of the first millennium is essential for resolving the question of the primacy of the pope in a united church, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More
TABGHA, Israel – As the two hikers reach the parking lot of the Church of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes, a group of tourists scrambles into their waiting air-conditioned bus.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Life emerged on earth thanks to a 12 billion-year-old process of stars caught in a cycle of collapsing, re-forming and collapsing again, said the former director of the Vatican Observatory.Read More
Monsignor John L. FitzGerald, director of Apostleship of the Sea Baltimore, is presenting a 20-minute PowerPoint presentation to Knights of Columbus councils across the state. First offered to more than 300 Knights during their mid-term meeting late January in Perry Hall, many grand knights and other officials indicated they enjoyed it so much, said Joe...Read More
Saying they were following in the footsteps of civil rights activists Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Dorothy Day, a contingent from the Archdiocese of Baltimore traveled to Washington to pray for immigration reform.Read More
Like the discovery of details in a Sherlock Holmes mystery, the purpose of this series of eight articles on St. Peter is to put together the pieces of his life and discover precisely who he was. More importantly, it is to discover the nature of the unique mission given him by Jesus Christ, a mission...Read More
SAN ANTONIO – Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago urged President Barack Obama and Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform before the end of 2009.Read More
The “young church” thronged the sun-filled streets of East Baltimore, as some 1,300 Catholic pilgrims followed youths carrying a large wooden cross and bundles of palms through neighborhoods decked out for St. Patrick’s Day.Read More
An hour before he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, 38-year-old Hector Mateus-Ariza walked quietly to the spot in the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen where Pope John Paul II had prayed nearly 14 years earlier. There, he knelt and prayed to God to help him as he began his priestly journey.Read More
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Iraqi Chaldean Catholic refugees in Beirut expressed fear for Christians still living in Iraq, but said they were not shocked upon hearing the news of the kidnapping and death of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul, Iraq.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Even in the face of terrible misfortune and suffering, true happiness is possible as long as one continues to have hope in God, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More