DUBLIN, Ireland - The Irish Christian Brothers have announced plans to contribute 161 million euros ($243 million) for assistance to victims of abuse in government schools and orphanages run by the congregation.Read More
VATICAN CITY – While some pundits have sounded the death knell for ecumenical relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion, Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, the Anglican spiritual leader, pledged to move forward.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
ROME – The work of the Catholic Church in Africa to stem the spread of HIV and to care for people living with AIDS is designed to respect the dignity and life of each person and to show solidarity with everyone in need, said the moderator of the Jesuit superiors in Africa and Madagascar.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
Why am I here? This is a question I must answer for myself as I begin my sixth year as Rector of the Seminary of Our Lady of Providence in Rhode Island. It’s a question I have prayed about for the last 13 years as a seminary faculty member, a question I bring to daily...Read More
QUEBEC CITY – Several cardinals from around the world gave the status of church life in their countries and regions at the 49th International Eucharistic Congress.Read More
Around the Archdiocese of Baltimore, students showed their support for veterans by participating in various celebrations and activities Nov. 11.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