DEKALB, Ill. – As helicopters hovered noisily over the parking lot at Christ the Teacher Parish on the campus of Northern Illinois University, students, staff and parishioners gathered in the church to pray the rosary for victims of the Feb. 14 shooting on their campus.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The 400-year-old case of Galileo Galilei and the Inquisition still serves as a valid warning that scientists should not presume to teach the church about faith and that the church must approach scientific discoveries with great caution, said the prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives.Read More

VATICAN CITY – A common understanding of the role the bishop of Rome played in the united Christianity of the first millennium is essential for resolving the question of the primacy of the pope in a united church, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

Where did it all start? Is it a Church invention? The Church’s role in the forgiveness of sins is based on the very words of the Lord to Peter and on a separate occasion to the Apostles: “I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will...Read More

The annual Catholic Men’s Conference, sponsored by Catholic Men’s Fellowship of Maryland, will be held Feb. 23 at Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore. This year’s theme is “Father, Faith and Family.”Read More

Saying they were following in the footsteps of civil rights activists Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Dorothy Day, a contingent from the Archdiocese of Baltimore traveled to Washington to pray for immigration reform.Read More

SAN ANTONIO – Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago urged President Barack Obama and Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform before the end of 2009.Read More

If you want to learn your catechism without wading through the 802 pages of the Catechism of the Catholic Church – and that’s the paperback version – Brother Charles Madden, O.F.M. Conv., has the answer.Read More