VATICAN CITY – The Vatican newspaper said it was “historically senseless hypocrisy” for the BBC to drop the dating abbreviations B.C. and A.D. on the grounds that they might offend non-Christians.Read More

WASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration’s decision not to appeal a court decision that the morning-after pill marketed as Plan B should be available over the counter to minors “flies in the face of common sense,” said the U.S. bishops’ pro-life spokeswoman.Read More

NEW ORLEANS – Retired Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans, a World War II paratroop chaplain who befriended and secretly counseled John F. Kennedy during and after his historic run for the White House as the first U.S. Catholic president, died Sept. 29 at age 98.Read More

ASUNCION, Paraguay – Just one week after Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo admitted to fathering a boy while he was still a Catholic bishop, Mr. Lugo faced two more paternity claims.Read More

Regarding “Parishes introduce new settings” (CR, Sept. 15), I do not disagree with the view that, in an archdiocese as diverse as ours, “it would be catastrophic to only have had one or two musical settings of the new translation to choose from.”Read More

When 49-year-old Christopher Gunty takes the helm of The Catholic Review as associate publisher and editor, July 1, the Chicago-area native will bring with him nearly three decades of experience in Catholic journalism.Read More

WASHINGTON - New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, told President Barack Obama in a Sept. 20 letter that his administration’s fight against the Defense of Marriage Act will undermine marriage and create a serious breach of church-state relations.Read More

Dorothy Pabst was called “Dots” by most, loved her row home in Fells Point and detested modern technology. She cared for Alzheimer’s patients in her own old age, and before that, was devoted to her only sibling, Father Louis Henry Pabst.Read More