VATICAN CITY – A U.S. pastor’s threat to burn copies of the Quran has damaged the image of the United States, said the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.Read More

This year, Baltimoreans can enjoy the New York City skyline, jazz music at a Harlem nightclub and Times Square congestion all without leaving the city.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Holiness is not a privilege reserved to a few people, but is a call that all men and women are meant to answer, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

WASHINGTON – Jewish, evangelical and Catholic speakers, some with backgrounds in national security and interfaith relations, called the controversy over plans to build an Islamic community center and mosque a few blocks from ground zero in New York “contrived” and likely to help those who would recruit potential terrorists.Read More

Pamela Walters saw the future of St. Clement Mary Hofbauer School in Rosedale develop right before her eyes Aug. 23.Read More

JERUSALEM – Perhaps in retrospect it was inevitable that Father Patrick Desbois dedicate a part of his life to seeking out the last witnesses to the Nazis’ mass executions of Jews in remote Ukrainian villages.Read More

BATON ROUGE, La. – Bobby Jindal, Louisiana’s Republican governor-elect, will be not only the nation’s youngest governor when he is sworn into office in January, but he’ll be the first Indian-American governor and the first who is a convert from Hinduism to Catholicism.Read More

Whether it was local citizens using wheelbarrows to haul off rubble or holding an umbrella to protect the body and blood of Christ at Mass during a downpour that broke through a tent, there is much about the spirit of the Haitian people that inspires Bishop Denis J. Madden.Read More