WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has shared his two encyclicals on hope and love with the world so the faithful will “grow in their experience of God,” said a former Vatican diplomat who now heads the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services.Read More

VATICAN CITY – When President Barack Obama steps into the pope’s private library in the Vatican July 10, he will become only the 12th U.S. president to do so.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI dedicated a portion of his new social encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”), to the urgent duty to share the earth’s resources equitably and safeguard the environment for future generations.Read More

Taking her daughter, Sarah, to Villanova University in Pennsylvania for her first day of college a few years ago was one of the most difficult things Kathleen Klein has ever done.Read More

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A bill to allow embryonic stem-cell research in New Mexico has been turned back for the second time in two years. “Life at its utmost vulnerable state has once again been successfully defended,” said a Feb. 22 news release from the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.Read More

On the last Sunday of the month, the Baltimore chapter of the Nigerian Igbo Catholic Community celebrates Mass in its native language.Read More

Yolanda Brooks-Summerville sat on her porch June 25 and sobbed. Just the thought of walking the stairs of her Park Heights Avenue row house overwhelmed her. She has brutal knee pain and the railing that lines her stairwell wobbled as she applied pressure.Read More

ROME – The disappearance of Christian communities from the Middle East threatens hope for finding a way to preserve traditional Arab values while also recognizing individual human rights, said two of the region’s Catholic bishops.Read More