VATICAN CITY - Multinational corporations have often ignored human rights, environmental regulations and labor laws in their business practices around the world, causing “exceptional damage” in underdeveloped countries, a Vatican official saidRead More

Eric Greene knows three classmates from his Catholic elementary school who have died. Others he knows from his old neighborhood are strung out on drugs or in jail.Read More

NEW YORK – With a push on by supporters of same-sex marriage to legalize it in New York State, supporters of traditional marriage – including New York’s archbishop – are mounting their own campaigns to keep marriage as a union between one man and one woman.Read More

Beth Kennedy and Mary Rose Malooly, Cadette Girl Scouts in Towson Troop 4441 and freshmen at Brooklandville’s Maryvale Preparatory School, have earned the Girl Scout Silver Award with their project “Healthy Active Lifestyles.”Read More

EUGENE, Oregon - Terrified families are fleeing farther south from the ravaged border town of Abyei as northern Sudanese troops continue to burn houses and fire artillery at retreating groups of civilians, said a Catholic priest from the local diocese.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI encouraged Iran’s tiny Catholic communities to be patient and persistent as they try to improve relations with the government and ensure a continued Christian presence in the Islamic republic.Read More

Processing up the long aisle at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland May 21, four white-robed men beamed with the knowledge that they would soon be ordained to the transitional diaconate.Read More

In a Jan. 13 ceremony at First and St. Stephen’s United Church of Christ in Towson, Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden joined dozens of Maryland faith leaders in signing a letter asking state lawmakers to repeal the death penalty – a recommendation urged last month by the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment.Read More