ALONG THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL NEAR LURAY, Va. – The 40-mph winds were whipping around 23-year-old Chris O’Keefe and the wind chill was below zero as he tried to cross from Georgia to North Carolina on the Appalachian Trail.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Vatican and Israeli representatives said they finally have a concrete plan for reaching an agreement on financial and juridical issues related to Catholic institutions in Israel. “The talks took place in an atmosphere of great cordiality, mutual understanding and good will, and produced important progress and hope for yet further advances in...Read More

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has demanded that Pope Benedict XVI apologize for saying that Europeans did not impose Catholicism on native Americans. “As chief of state, I implore His Holiness to offer apologies to the peoples of our America,” President Chavez said in a mid-May broadcast over Venezuelan radio and television. “How...Read More

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Calling for an end to the nation’s “enslavement to legal abortion,” Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life announced April 27 that a series of “freedom rides” for the unborn would begin this summer.Read More

The University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore will lead international adult stem-cell research that has the support of the Vatican.Read More

Glyndon Bailey was just 20 years old and had never shot a gun in his life when he was drafted by the U.S. Army for World War II in April of 1943. Although the lanky non-commissioned officer said the Army taught him “pretty fast” how to shoot an M1903 bolt-action Springfield Rifle, the Catonsville native...Read More

SAO PAULO, Brazil – The Brazilians stood quietly in a line, waiting for the nuns at the Monastery of the Immaculate Conception of Light to open the door and start handing out “Frei Galvao’s pills.”Read More

A group of Mount St. Mary’s University students is stranded in Florence, Italy until a flight out of Europe becomes available.Read More