NEW YORK – Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki Takami of Nagasaki, Japan, was an unborn child in his mother’s womb on Aug. 9, 1945, when the second atomic bomb obliterated his hometown. The blast killed about 75,000 people and brought an end to World War II.Read More

This year, Baltimoreans can enjoy the New York City skyline, jazz music at a Harlem nightclub and Times Square congestion all without leaving the city.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Holiness is not a privilege reserved to a few people, but is a call that all men and women are meant to answer, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

What do Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and the best lacrosse goalies in the land have in common?Read More

LONDON – The British government has apologized to the Vatican for an official memo that proposed the launch of “Benedict condoms” and the opening of an abortion clinic as part of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain.Read More

JERUSALEM – Perhaps in retrospect it was inevitable that Father Patrick Desbois dedicate a part of his life to seeking out the last witnesses to the Nazis’ mass executions of Jews in remote Ukrainian villages.Read More

BATON ROUGE, La. – Bobby Jindal, Louisiana’s Republican governor-elect, will be not only the nation’s youngest governor when he is sworn into office in January, but he’ll be the first Indian-American governor and the first who is a convert from Hinduism to Catholicism.Read More

The Tribunal of the Archdiocese of Baltimore will host a series of presentations on the church’s teachings on marriage, divorce and annulments. To be held through the end of May, the events are open to everyone but especially the divorced or those marrying a divorced person, Catholics married outside the church, RCIA team members and...Read More