The current tone in the immigration reform debate has inflamed fears and misunderstanding among some portions of the American public, leading to a polarized and vitriolic atmosphere, said a U.S. church official.Read More

Otis Rolley, a Democratic challenger to Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, wants to give $10,000 education vouchers to students in the city’s worst-performing middle schools – vouchers that could be used at Baltimore’s Catholic and other nonpublic schools.Read More

Handouts to the poor are not enough; poverty must be tackled by overhauling social structures that deny people basic human rights, Pope Benedict XVI said at his weekly general audience.Read More

St. Peter’s Adult Learning Center honored its founder, Religious Sister of Mercy Katherine Nueslein, in a May 27 dedication ceremony of a newly acquired building on Hollins Street. The building was renamed the Sister Katherine Nueslein Center. The St. Peter’s Adult Learning Center was founded by Sister Katherine in 1982 to provide programs for an...Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Moscow to head the Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev in Belarus.Read More

ROME – For the first time, an international meeting of bishops’ representatives heard testimony from a survivor of clergy sex abuse in an effort to help clerics be more aware of the impact of abuse and to show how the church can better help victims.Read More

WASHINGTON – Catholic health care and ethical groups thanked the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for clarifying its stand on artificial nutrition and hydration for patients in a persistent vegetative state in a pair of Sept. 14 documents.Read More

WASHINGTON – Jesuit Father Patrick J. Conroy was unanimously approved as the next House chaplain in a May 25 vote.Read More