As construction workers arranged yellow fall annuals and wiped down a wrought-iron fence at the Pope John Paul II Prayer Garden, Cardinal William H. Keeler surprised them.Read More

SAN FRANCISCO – Outreach efforts to victims of human trafficking were given new impetus by a recent California task force report that said the state is a prime target for trade in human beings.Read More

Malaria is among the maladies adversely affecting the quality of life in Tanzania.Read More

Receiving chemotherapy by intravenous infusion can take between four and eight hours. That’s a long time to be sitting in a chair, not to mention the psychological aspect, so Dr. Mark Krasna, medical director of the Cancer Institute at St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, set out to find a chair that was both comfortable and...Read More

Throughout the ages conscience has been described in various ways. Origen, who lived around the year 200, called it “the chamber of justice.” Carl Jung said “through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface … a small voice says to us, ‘Something is out of tune,’ ” and our own...Read More

As 2008 begins, the pastor of St. Vincent de Paul, Baltimore, will order all makeshift tents used by the homeless in the park adjacent to the church to come down.Read More

At a time when a rising tide of secularism threatened the church’s existence in Germany, a young Bavarian woman took a stand for her faith that would touch the lives of millions throughout the world for 175 years.Read More

When Father Gerard Francik recently interviewed a 19-year-old man who was thinking about becoming a priest, the archdiocesan vocations director asked him to talk about his prayer life.Read More