NEW YORK – Here is the text of the prayer Pope Benedict XVI offered during a visit to ground zero in New York April 20.Read More

WASHINGTON – With an estimated 184 million adults using the Internet and 75 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds having a Facebook or MySpace account, the Sisters of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus are going high-tech to spread information about their order and the call to a religious vocation.Read More

About 200 concerned Hamilton-area residents breathed a collective sigh of relief as developers abandoned a plan to convert the vacant St. Dominic School into a low-income apartment building – instead constructing a mostly senior housing project. Residents of the Hamilton, Arcadia, Lauraville and Beverly Hills neighborhoods were prepared for a slugfest with developers, representatives of...Read More

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Sick Zimbabwean refugees in Johannesburg are being turned away from South African hospitals, despite an official policy that outlaws discrimination against noncitizens, a priest said.Read More

Four Mercy High School, Baltimore, students gently touched the ivory keys on shiny, black, baby grand pianos, filling the lobby of the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall with music as hundreds of visitors viewed various works of art from aspiring young artists. On April 9, some 350 students from about 50 Catholic schools in the archdiocese...Read More

Sister Mary Catherine Warehime wasn’t yet Catholic when she first felt called to consecrated life.Read More

The U.S. bishops voted Nov. 14 to establish a permanent Subcommittee on Health Care Issues under the jurisdiction of their Committee on Doctrine.Read More

WASHINGTON – From the earliest days of the nation, U.S. and Vatican leaders have considered it worthwhile to keep diplomatic channels open, despite the sometimes rocky political paths involved.Read More