KIWANJA, Congo – As the rains fall in eastern Congo, Luisa Riziki huddles inside a tent she cobbled together out of bent branches and plastic sheeting, her four children gathered at her side on the bare ground.Read More

Wielding a pair of oversized scissors, a smiling Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien snipped a golden dedication ribbon with one decisive cut Oct. 7 – officially dedicating a brand-new $3.6 million parish center at Holy Family Catholic Community in Middletown and marking the first of what is likely to be many dedication ceremonies as Baltimore’s 15th...Read More

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – The number of people claiming to have been sexually abused by Catholic priests and other church workers in the Fairbanks Diocese over the past six decades more than doubled after the diocese filed for bankruptcy protection in March.Read More

California faces a tough uphill battle to reform its health care delivery system, but the growing need and the mounting pressure to address the issue may sway the Legislature and the voters to act, said panelists at a recent gathering on health care.Read More

BEIT SAHOUR, West Bank – When the Christmas season comes around, Nadia Bannourah pushes back the living room sofas, removes the coffee table and drags over the big kitchen table in its place.Read More

Kevin Walling, director for special projects for the Archdiocese for the U.S. Military Services, has worked closely with Baltimore’s new archbishop.Read More

ROME – An Italian government official intervened to stop a hospital from withholding nutrition and hydration from a woman who has been in a persistent vegetative state for 16 years.Read More

In one of his last acts as head of the U.S. military archdiocese, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien dedicated a building he hopes will be a lasting monument to the service and sacrifices of American military personnel and the chaplains who minister to them.Read More