Faced with a General Assembly and a string of governors who have mostly opposed pro-life legislation in the last decade, Nancy Paltell doesn't have the easiest job in Annapolis. That doesn't stop the pro-life lobbyist from being one of the leading voices in support of measures that champion respect for life from conception until natural...Read More

NAZARETH, Israel – Meeting with Catholic and other religious leaders in Nazareth, Pope Benedict XVI returned to a running theme of his Holy Land pilgrimage: that God intervenes in human history, offering people a real reason for hope.Read More

BOULDER, Colo. – A pro-life project to build and display 3,300 crosses in memory of the number of babies aborted daily drew more than 80 willing participants at Sacred Heart of Mary Church in Boulder.Read More

Gov. Martin J. O’Malley signed a bill May 7 that imposes significant restrictions on the death penalty in Maryland. The new law allows capital punishment only in murder cases where there is biological evidence, videotaped evidence or a videotaped confession.Read More

DUNDALK – Clergy, volunteers, donors and friends gathered Oct. 15 to celebrate the dedication and ribbon cutting for the newly renovated and expanded Apostleship of the Sea Stella Maris International Seafarers’ Center. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien presided over the prayer service and blessed the center’s new chapel and outdoor monument.Read More

WASHINGTON – A conviction that the 13th-century writings of St. Thomas Aquinas can foster a fruitful dialogue with contemporary culture is the true cornerstone of the newly built academic center and theological library recently inaugurated at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington.Read More

WASHINGTON – Iraqis want a return to peace, security and stability and the chance to secure meaningful employment, said two U.S. bishops who traveled to Baghdad in a demonstration of the American Catholic Church’s solidarity with the country’s violence-weary Christians.Read More

Norman Beard lost contact with music after he enlisted in the Army, but he still refers to his days in the Holy Cross Boys Band of South Baltimore as some of the best years of his early life. When the band formed in 1933, Mr. Beard was a fifth-grader interested in music, but “no one...Read More