VATICAN CITY – When Pope Benedict XVI gave President Barack Obama a Vatican document on bioethics, he was trying to be clear with him about church teaching and open a path to further dialogue, the Vatican spokesman said.Read More

The 23rd rector of the nation’s first Catholic cathedral was installed March 9 before a cheering crowd. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien officially installed Father Jeffery S. Dauses during the 10:45 a.m. Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore, which was overflowing with parishioners, friends and...Read More

More than 750 men, women and students packed a ballroom in Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel March 4 to applaud the efforts of the honorees at Catholic Charities’ annual distinguished service awards banquet.Read More

WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI called on labor unions to look beyond their membership when protecting the rights of workers and turn their attention to workers in other fields and in developing countries where social rights are violated.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Talk about a grand finale.Read More

It seemed unusual to me that “Annie” was alone as she pushed open the door to the funeral home and struggled to climb onto the bench to sit beside me. The 5-year-old had lost her teenage sister to cancer just four days before, and since then she was constantly being held by members of her...Read More

ADRIAN, Mich. – Dominican sisters and friars throughout the world are able to make their justice and peace concerns known in the international community through Dominican Sister Eileen Gannon, the main representative of the Dominican Leadership Conference to the United Nations.Read More

Michael Jacoby stood in a Baltimore County courtroom on the day of his June 2008 sentencing and asked for forgiveness.Read More