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

Rudy Vargas IV (CR, Dec. 24) would have us add another vile word to the modern lexicon, “Americanize.” While putting forth his argument for cultural diversity, he seems to forget the Americanization of this country is one of the reasons so many people from various cultures have desired to live and work here.Read More

CHICAGO – The Catholic Church Extension Society has awarded more than $3 million in grants to educate 509 seminarians from the most underfunded dioceses in the United States during the 2010 fiscal year.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

WASHINGTON – Times, as they say, are tough all over. And the economic troubles that have beset the United States, and much of the rest of the world, as a persistent recession reached its second anniversary also have touched the church.Read More

Alan Hahn was ready for a cooking challenge every Christmas Eve, as immediate and extended family would return home.Read More

Guided by her faith and passion for life, The Catholic High School of Baltimore senior Suzanne Remeikis has succeeded both inside and outside of the classroom.Read More