VATICAN CITY – Military chaplains must be voices of conscience and defenders of the human rights of their own soldiers, enemy combatants and civilians, said Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien of Baltimore, who headed the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services for 10 years.Read More

NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Looking back at 30 years of pro-life work for the Catholic Church, Richard M. Doerflinger said he sometimes felt he had come into “contact with something very close to ultimate evil.”Read More

WASHINGTON – For the first time, more than 100 senior Muslim leaders from around the world sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI and other Christian leaders proposing theological similarities as a basis for peace and understanding.Read More

CUMBERLAND – In an April 28 town meeting marked by a combination of hopefulness, apprehension and anger, approximately 250 people gathered at St. Mary in Cumberland to ask questions about a proposal to create a new area parish out of five existing ones.Read More

From the walls of Bon Secours Hospital, Sister Mary Magdalen Condry’s picture admonishes visitors to be quiet and not disturb the sick.Read More

CHICAGO – Father Michael Pfleger, the outspoken pastor of an African-American parish on Chicago’s South Side, has been suspended from the priesthood after saying he would leave the Catholic Church if he were to be reassigned.Read More

PISCO, Peru – Six weeks after an earthquake flattened 80 percent of the adobe brick homes in Pisco, the town on the Pacific coast 140 miles south of Lima, had only recently started to rumble consistently with the more welcome sound of heavy equipment hauling away tons of rubble.Read More

LINTHICUM – In one of its best showings in recent years, The Catholic Review was honored by the Maryland, Delaware, DC Press Association with eight editorial awards and 10 advertising awards during an April 21-22 convention at the Sheraton BWI Hotel.Read More