BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) -- Thanking Americans for their hospitality, Pope Benedict XVI departed the United States amid a cheering crowd of 4,000 people who had come to see him off.Read More

LOS ANGELES – Both the city and the county of Los Angeles will suffer if a nationally acclaimed gang-intervention program has to shut down, even temporarily, said the Jesuit priest who founded the program more than two decades ago.Read More

VATICAN CITY – An unusually acrimonious fight has erupted this summer between the Vatican and the government of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, fueled by growing unease over Berlusconi’s personal life and some of his government’s policies.Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. bishops presented Pope Benedict XVI with a birthday gift from Catholics across the country – a check for $870,000 to support his charitable works.Read More

WASHINGTON – Here is the text of Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks to representatives of others religions at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center April 17.Read More

MEXICO CITY – Saying that falling Sunday collections have left the Archdiocese of Leon, Mexico, unable to pay the medical bills of its infirm priests, Archbishop Jose Martin Rabago has called on Catholics to continue supporting the church financially in spite of the current economic crisis.Read More

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and his administration want to see comprehensive reform of the nation’s immigration system “happen sooner than later,” according to a Catholic immigration advocate.Read More

Father William J. Watters, S.J., former pastor of St. Ignatius, Baltimore, was honored by the Ignatian Volunteer Corps (IVC) April 10 at a Loyola Blakefield, Towson, reception. The priest received the first Madonna Della Strada Award, presented by the IVC national office and named after Sancta Maria Della Strada, the first church which St. Ignatius...Read More