VATICAN CITY – The Vatican Museums had a rare opportunity to unravel some of the secrets inside a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy.Read More

Leaders of the Maryland Catholic Conference made progress on a wide range of issues during this year’s Maryland General Assembly, but a reluctant legislature failed to give them a lot of what they hoped for.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s addition of two meetings with Jews in the United States underlined the pope’s continuing interest in improving Catholic-Jewish relations.Read More

WASHINGTON (CNS) – When San Francisco passed an ordinance more than 13 years ago requiring agencies that contract with the city to provide spousal benefits to employees' domestic partners, then-Archbishop William J. Levada asked for a religious exemption, arguing that it imposed "an unconstitutional condition" on religiously affiliated organizations such as Catholic Charities.Read More

ANNAPOLIS – One day before Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien was to announce a comprehensive plan to consolidate Catholic schools, a State Senate committee heard testimony March 3 on a bill that supporters say would help prevent other schools from closing.Read More

VATICAN CITY – A Vatican official said that, for the first time, the world’s Muslim population is greater than the number of Catholics.Read More

WARSAW, Poland – Catholic Church leaders have been working to head off a possible conflict about pastoral jurisdiction over the estimated 1.5 million Polish migrants in the United Kingdom.Read More

A memorial Mass for Hilbert Dennis Stanley, former executive director of the National Black Catholic Congress and a prominent educator, was to be offered Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. at St. Bernardine in Baltimore. Stanley died Feb. 12. He was 78.Read More