VATICAN CITY – A Vatican official condemned the reported cloning of human embryos and said the idea of using them to produce “personalized” therapeutic stem cells was morally illicit and pointless.Read More

Pancreatic cancer, the disease that recently claimed the lives of Apple founder Steve Jobs and Pep Perrella, good and faithful friend of the archdiocese, and which has stricken Archbishop Spalding football coach Mike Whittles and WBAL talk show host Ron Smith, remains a killer un-caged by modern medicine.Read More

Father Christopher M. Carney, a beloved pastor known for his gentleness and wisdom, died Jan. 15 after a long illness. He was 77.Read More

ARAKAN, Philippines – An Italian priest doing mission work in a remote area of the southern Philippines was gunned down inside the compound of Mother of Perpetual Help Parish in Arakan, said a local official.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Scholars, history buffs and the public at large will now be able to peek inside some of the Vatican’s historical black-and-white photograph collection.Read More

It was a galaxy far away and a time long ago, which means that the story I’m about to tell happened somewhere else in the distant past. It’s a story that did not have a happy beginning. A young woman was pregnant and decided she should have an abortion. Her mother agreed with her, and...Read More

Since Pennsylvania established the Pennsylvania Alternative to Abortion Services Program 13 years ago, the company that administrates the program, Real Alternatives, Inc., has enjoyed some major successes.Read More

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles and immigrant advocate groups praised Gov. Jerry Brown for signing into law the rest of the California DREAM Act, allowing undocumented students who have graduated from a California high school to apply for state financial aid to attend college at a state school.Read More