BALTIMORE – Maryland’s growing role in stem-cell research was highlighted Sept. 21 as researchers from around the globe gathered at the Baltimore Convention Center for the 2009 World Stem Cell Summit.Read More
SYDNEY, Australia – While in Sydney for World Youth Day, Pope Benedict XVI may apologize to victims of clerical sexual abuse, according to Sydney’s largest circulation newspapers.Read More
“A great prayer for life is urgently needed, a prayer which will rise up throughout the world.” These words of the late Pope John Paul II in his 1995 encyclical, “Gospel of Life,” are a call to action and a rallying cry for change – the kind of change that comes through the most powerful...Read More
VATICAN CITY – No one would ever mistake St. Peter’s Square for Giants Stadium. But for centuries, the Vatican has hosted countless competitions and dozens of high-caliber athletes – most of them lay employees, some of them monsignors and popes.Read More
In letters to Congress, both Bishop William F. Murphy, representing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities, expressed strong but qualified support for reforming our health care system. This is a position the bishops have taken for decades in support of the uninsured and calling...Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI said his April 15-20 visit to the United Nations and the United States was an opportunity to give – and to receive – a witness to the power of hope and faith.Read More
WASHINGTON – It is possible to bring Catholic values to the ongoing debate over health care reform just as it was done earlier this year in forging a four-way agreement on the potential unionization of workers at Catholic hospitals, said Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y.Read More