LONDON – The British government has removed from its website a petition protesting Pope Benedict XVI’s Sept. 16-19 visit to England and Scotland.Read More

ROME -- The Sri Lankan navy has confiscated permanent housing that a Jesuit aid agency had built for refugees affected by the country's civil war.Read More

Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, hosted LUNAFEST Feb. 28, a national traveling film festival designed to bring women together, highlight female filmmakers, promote awareness about women’s issues and raise money for breast cancer research.Read More

DUBLIN – Fresh intercommunity dialogue is needed to resolve the difficulties surrounding controversial parades in Northern Ireland, said a Catholic priest in Belfast, Northern Ireland, following the most serious outbreak of sectarian rioting in many years.Read More

TIVERTON, R.I. – With the simple tap of a touch screen, Father Jay Finelli has embraced an alternative way to spread the good news.Read More

Three-fourths of Irvetta Lewis’ third-grade class at St. Katharine, Baltimore, raised their hands when asked if they had been nervous while reciting their greeting in unison to Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien on his first stop of a three-school tour Feb. 26. Yet six eighth-grade student ambassadors, sitting with the archbishop in casual conversation at the...Read More

SAN FRANCISCO – Eliminating much of the world’s worst poverty within a decade would become a principle of U.S. foreign policy for the first time under a Catholic-led legislative push gathering force with a growing interfaith alliance.Read More

THRISSUR, India – A leader of anti-Christian violence that rocked the jungle district of Kandhamal in 2008 was convicted of murder by a court in eastern Orissa state.Read More