WASHINGTON – With a tangled set of six opinions, the Supreme Court ruled April 28 that it could be constitutional for the federal government to permit a large cross to stay within the boundaries of a national preserve in the California desert.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Anytime there’s mention of a new Ten Commandments at the Vatican, journalists start salivating. So the buzz was high when a new “Decalogue for the Environment” was promised in early June.Read More

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien said the bishops made a firm stand in the discussion of embryonic stem-cell research at U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ meetings in Orlando, Fla., June 12-14.Read More

WASHINGTON – Catholic Charities USA and its many U.S. diocesan-based affiliates have long been known as social service providers. But they’ve also been part of the job-creation movement, even in the midst of tough economic times, and even for some of the hardest-to-place job seekers.Read More

The Archdiocese of Baltimore had 1,081 people receive sacraments for the first time during Easter Vigil Masses.Read More

After nearly five years working as an assistant to Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski in the office of the eastern vicar, Sister Constance “Connie” Gilder, S.S.J., is taking on a new role as Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien’s delegate to religious.Read More

The sun rises over the Chesapeake Bay, offering hopeful rays each morning to patients meditating on the lawn by the chapel at Father Martin’s Ashley.Read More

Maryland’s Catholic bishops issued the following statement April 13:Read More