Saying that Baltimore City was crucial to the survival of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien launched an anti-violence initiative with other local faith leaders May 27 at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Roland Park. .Read More

WASHINGTON – Catholic health care and ethical groups thanked the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for clarifying its stand on artificial nutrition and hydration for patients in a persistent vegetative state in a pair of Sept. 14 documents.Read More

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has nominated prominent Catholic theologian Miguel Diaz to become ambassador to the Vatican.Read More

VATICAN CITY – In a brief document approved by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican said it was generally a moral obligation to provide food and water to patients in a vegetative state. Nutrition and hydration, even by artificial means, cannot simply be terminated because doctors have determined that a person will never recover consciousness, the...Read More

It was with great sadness that I learned of the closing of St. Mary of the Assumption School in Govans (CR, May 21). My six children attended St. Mary’s and all graduated with a wonderful education that prepared them for high school and college. I want to express my deepest thanks to the wonderful clergy,...Read More

OAKLAND, Calif. – Their family home in Fallujah, Iraq, was shelled, burned and looted. They languished for two years in Istanbul, Turkey, within the cultural and vocational limbo accorded refugees who are waiting to be permanently resettled somewhere, sometime. Now that Hana, Wafa and Sana Toma have found a permanent home in the Oakland Diocese...Read More

GUATEMALA CITY – Oblate Father Lawrence Rosebaugh, a U.S. priest with a long history of taking risks to aid the poor and marginalized, was killed in a highway robbery in Guatemala May 18.Read More

INDIANAPOLIS – Sam Madden likes it that when he walks through the halls of St. Roch School in Indianapolis he’s likely to see another member of his family. “It’s pretty cool,” said the 13-year-old. “You can walk down the hall and say hi to them. It brightens up the day.” The seven Madden children –...Read More