In light of the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), I recently sent e-mails to Senators Mikulski and Cardin, and Rep. Ruppersberger. I expressed my dismay over the fact that FOCA would take away freedom of choice for doctors and hospitals. To date, I have received a reply from Senator Cardin. I thought I should share...Read More

BALTIMORE – Citing an alarming political and partisan stalemate in Washington, a draft statement discussed by the U.S. bishops Nov. 12 again laid out a moral framework for a transition in Iraq.Read More

A Senate bill that would lift the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse cases in Maryland would have a devastating impact on parishes, schools and ministries in the three dioceses serving the state, Catholic leaders said.Read More

When Katie Lutz told some of her friends at Franklin High School in Reisterstown she was taking a day off to attend the National Catholic Youth Conference in Columbus, Ohio, they looked at her as though she had sprung a third arm.Read More

Auxiliary Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski will head a new archdiocesan coalition that will promote immigration reform among parishioners and politicians alike.Read More

Theology might have been on tap Wednesday night but it was the archbishop who was pouring, inspiring the standing-room-only crowd.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI renewed his “full and unquestionable solidarity” with the world’s Jews and condemned all ignorance, denial and downplaying of the brutal slaughter of millions of Jewish people during the Holocaust.Read More

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio – The beginning and end of human life were the focus of Franciscan University of Steubenville’s first bioethics conference, marking the rollout of a new emphasis on Catholic bioethics education at the school.Read More