GERMANTOWN – About 700 Catholics gathered in their winter hats and coats for an early morning Mass and prayerful protest Dec. 11 outside an abortion clinic to pray for the conversion of LeRoy Carhart, a doctor who recently came to Montgomery County from Nebraska to perform late term abortions.Read More
DENVER – Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput has joined other leaders of faith-based organizations in opposing a bill before the Colorado Legislature they criticized as harmful to preserving religious identity.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican and the Palestine Liberation Organization have resumed diplomatic talks and agreed to establish a working group dedicated to drafting a comprehensive agreement between the two parties.Read More
WASHINGTON – The needs of poor and marginalized people deserve the same attention from government officials as the current needs of Wall Street’s failing financial firms, said a group of religious leaders.Read More
Convinced that a bill introduced last week in the House of Delegates would cripple the Church’s many ministries, leaders of the Archdiocese of Baltimore have launched an awareness campaign aimed at educating Catholics about the legislation’s impact on parishes, schools and Catholic institutions.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, gave Pope Benedict XVI a wooden box carved in Syria as a sign of ecumenical concern for the fate of Christians in the Middle East.Read More
The Knights of Columbus and members of St. Clement Mary Hofbauer paused at the Rosedale parish on the morning of Sept. 11 to observe the Knights’ World Day of Prayer for Peace.Read More
It’s not often seminarians are treated like rock stars, with the crowd drumming their feet on the bleachers and applauding. But at Mount 2008 in Emmitsburg on Feb. 10, that was the appreciative response from more than 1,600 high school students and chaperones when the seminarians were acknowledged at the closing Mass of the weekend...Read More
Sister Eleanor Noll was part of a small community of Benedictine sisters who relocated to Baltimore in 1971, during a time when nuns were changing not just their traditional habits but also their roles.Read More
They call him Recycle Sam, although his name is Ross. The pastor of St. Casimir, Canton, earned the nickname for encouraging his parishioners to recycle.Read More
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Thousands of people who fled Chad to neighboring Cameroon after rebel fighting in early February are in a desperate situation without any infrastructure to support them, said a spokesman for the U.S. bishops’ Catholic Relief Services.Read More