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VATICAN CITY – The supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus and the fraternal order’s bishop-chaplain met privately with Pope Benedict XVI Dec. 6 and delivered a check for $1.6 million.

Three years from now, St. Agnes HealthCare in Baltimore will look completely different. Today, the biggest visible change is the loop road that’s been started; it eventually will provide access to a new 120-bed patient tower.

LUSAKA, Zambia – Zambia needs a comprehensive strategy to protect it from high debts and mismanagement that threaten to erode the gains of debt cancellation, said an official from the Jesuit Center for Theological Reflection in Lusaka.

Tony Magliano did an admirable job of parroting the political far-left in his piece on global warming (CR, Nov. 15). In support of his claim that there’s not much time left to save the planet, he points to his personal experiences with warm weather; Al Gore; the Motion Picture Academy; the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The Feast of the Immaculate Conception falls on a Saturday this year – and, yes, Catholics are required to attend Mass.

A funeral Mass was offered for Sister Marie Joyce O’Keefe, O.S.F., on Nov. 29 at Assisi House in Aston, Pa. Sister Marie Joyce died on Nov. 23; she was 89.

LIMA, Peru – Peru’s Supreme Court convicted 10 former Cabinet ministers for their role in the events of April 5, 1992, when then-President Alberto Fujimori closed down Congress and took control of the judiciary.

A 2008 calendar that features photos from an African mission trip undertaken this summer by parishioners of the Archdiocese of Baltimore is available for sale. The proceeds will be used to help purchase a new ambulance for St. Elizabeth Hospital in Arusha, Tanzania.

WARSAW, Poland – A Polish bishop is suing a local newspaper after it accused him of informing for the communist-era secret police.