Concerned that two bills passed by the Maryland General Assembly would “significantly erode” the definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien is urging Gov. Martin J. O’Malley to veto Senate Bills 566 and 597.Read More

If I was running a pro-life pregnancy center, and I was required by the new law to post a sign stating the services the center did not provide, I might post the following sign: “This center attempts in every way possible to help pregnant women to have healthy and happy babies. We are not, however,...Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI offered prayers for four missionaries killed in Africa, including an Irish priest who had worked on development for 41 years in Kenya and was found murdered Dec. 11 in his parish residence.Read More

A funeral Mass for Sister Baptista Peters, D.C., a sister of 80 years, was offered April 9 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Emmitsburg. Sister Baptista died April 6. She was 98.Read More

ASSISI, Italy – Assisi – the birthplace of St. Francis, saint of the poor – has instituted a ban on begging.Read More

When anti-Catholic prejudice was still rampant in the South during the early 1950s, Sister Marietta Russell was knocking on doors and sharing her faith in the small towns of South Carolina.Read More

Although November was established as the month we celebrate National Black Catholic History, it is also the month we celebrated National Native American Heritage.Read More

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. – The Trappist monks at Our Lady of Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner are looking at a variety of new ways to support themselves as they phase out their popular egg production business.Read More