ROME – At the start of a visit to Italy, excommunicated Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo was denied Communion when he attended a Mass at a local parish church near Naples.Read More

Father Eugene Nickol resigned as pastor of Our Lady of the Fields in Millersville Oct. 25 following a recent archdiocesan audit of the parish’s financial and child and youth protection records. The audit showed a lack of “appropriate controls to ensure compliance with archdiocesan child protection and financial policies,” according to an Oct. 30 archdiocesan...Read More

KITGUM, Uganda – Corrina Akongo has harvested sweet potatoes from her own land for the first time in years.Read More

Catholic school administrators, lay parish volunteers and prominent business leaders are among the 24 individuals in the Archdiocese of Baltimore who will be awarded papal honors at a special 4 p.m. prayer service at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland Nov. 20.Read More

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Yamira Abreu emerged from her 14-bed dormitory and headed to the dining hall to share a meal, conversation and prayers with her fellow students at the Hogar Rosa Duarte orphanage for girls.Read More

Working with a cardboard box, duct tape and plastic bags, 17-year-old Justine Lago did her best to construct a makeshift shelter similar to those made by Baltimore’s homeless. She soon realized it took more skill than she anticipated.Read More

CUMBERLAND – Early in his ministry as one of the first Maryknoll missioners to China nine decades ago, an idealistic young priest from Cumberland came across a Chinese farm boy working in a rice field near Jiangmen.Read More

LONDON – A leading Catholic bioethical institute has welcomed the decision of a European court to ban the patenting of any medical treatment derived from destructive experiments on human embryos.Read More