VATICAN CITY – Statistics leave no doubt that the number of women religious has dropped sharply over the last 50 years, but there is an ongoing debate over the reasons for the decline.Read More

A newly formed consortium of four area Catholic hospitals will meet quarterly to collaborate on palliative and end-of-life care.Read More

Many couples share everything during their marriage, from a favorite restaurant to friends and, perhaps most importantly, a parish.Read More

Audience members at Church of the Annunciation, Rosedale, were so intently focused on Father Thomas J. Euteneuer’s exorcism talk, Oct. 21, that when someone in the crowd muffled a sneeze – they flinched.Read More

Raynard Pinckney has spent the last six months unable to contain himself. If anyone could identify, it was the 30 Archdiocese of Baltimore alumni from the 2008 World Youth Day who surrounded him at St. Veronica’s parish hall in Cherry Hill Jan. 3.Read More

What began last October as a breast cancer awareness and fundraising initiative by the Mount de Sales Academy tennis team in Catonsville has expanded to a Baltimore-wide campaign among several all-girls’ schools.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Christians should not fear what the continuing financial crisis will bring in 2009, but they should trust in God and resolve to help one another in the new year, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI and Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete held talks on pacification in central Africa and the importance of Christian-Muslim cooperation. The pope and the Tanzanian president met for 15 minutes of private discussions Oct. 19. Afterward, Kikwete held separate talks with the Vatican’s top foreign affairs officials.Read More