WASHINGTON – What kind of Catholic Church will Pope Benedict XVI find when he arrives in the United States in April? How similar or different will it be from the U.S. church community that greeted Pope John Paul II on his first papal visit in 1979 or his last trip to the U.S. in 1999?Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court declined June 6 to hear an appeal of a decade-old California law that allows undocumented immigrants and others without state residency to attend college at in-state tuition rates. The action allows the policy to continue.Read More

Leading a March 12 Lenten reflection at Calvert Hall College High School in Towson, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien told 150 teens they must be open to whatever Christ asks of them. It won’t always be easy, Archbishop O’Brien said, but if they say yes to Jesus he will help satisfy a spiritual longing in their...Read More

The “Monumental City” – this is how President John Quincy Adams referred to Baltimore in 1827. The president was talking about Baltimore’s unique skyline with its church steeples and monuments.Read More

Adela Maquin Caal left her Guatemala village for the first time in her 19 years of life in early March to visit her church’s sister parish, Corpus Christi, Baltimore.Read More

ROME - Unprecedented social and cultural changes around the world are challenging the church’s religious orders to re-examine their identity and their prophetic role, speakers at a Rome conference said.Read More

The 23rd rector of the nation’s first Catholic cathedral was installed March 9 before a cheering crowd. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien officially installed Father Jeffery S. Dauses during the 10:45 a.m. Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore, which was overflowing with parishioners, friends and...Read More

JERUSALEM - U.S. President Barack Obama’s call for Israeli and Palestinian states based on Israel’s 1967 borders met with a largely wary response from Palestinian Christians.Read More