Two days before Gov. Martin J. O’Malley announced his July 22 decision to sponsor legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in Maryland, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien sent him a private letter urging O’Malley – a Catholic – to “refrain” from promoting the redefinition of marriage.Read More

LIMA, Peru – A series of drug arrests in the United States and the arrival of Mexican troops in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, have drawn increased attention to drug trafficking, a problem highlighted by the region’s Catholic bishops.Read More

MOBILE, Ala. - Alabama’s new immigration law will affect “every part” of undocumented immigrants’ lives and make “the exercise of our Christian religion” illegal, Mobile’s archbishop said in an Aug. 1 letter to Catholics.Read More

SAN FRANCISCO – The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco March 3 upheld a 2006 lower court ruling that the Vatican is not entitled to sovereign immunity from a clergy sex abuse lawsuit that named it as a defendant.Read More

About 270 people took a neighborhood walk together on a hot summer evening in Germantown July 31. As part of the Summer of Mercy 2.0 events to witness for life, people of all ages processed from Mother Seton Church praying the rosary, and they walked a few blocks to the nearby office complex, where late-term...Read More

LUSAKA, Zambia – Extreme poverty and cultural practices are contributing to the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, despite efforts to control HIV, said church officials.Read More

Italian Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Vatican nuncio to the United States, died late July 27 at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore after a hospitalization that began with lung surgery. He was 73.Read More

Hundreds of Marylanders will gather in Annapolis March 9 to rally in support of pregnant women at the 30th annual Maryland March for Life.Read More