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VATICAN CITY – In the midst of a financial situation of great uncertainty, consumers have a right to be confused, said an article in the Vatican newspaper.

VATICAN CITY – Anticipating the Dec. 1 commemoration of World AIDS Day, the president of Caritas Internationalis urged greater efforts from governments and from medical experts in caring for children with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

I was surprised to learn that Maryland Senators Cardin and Mikulski are co-sponsors of the The Freedom of Choice Act. It sounds good, because every American is proud of our freedom to choose what is right and avoid what is wrong. This bill, however, is not a freedom to choose, but a death warrant to what science has determined to be a human being at conception. The bill will require that we pay for the death of a human being who cannot speak for themselves.

Archdiocesan leaders are hopeful Maryland will soon end the death penalty after a state commission recommended its abolition Nov. 12.

VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church must strengthen its efforts to educate and assist lay Catholics involved in politics so that the positions they hold and the policies they promote reflect the values of the faith they profess, Pope Benedict XVI said.

WASHINGTON – The administrator of the Diocese of Charleston, S.C., said a pastor who told his parishioners they should refrain from receiving holy Communion if they voted for President-elect Barack Obama did not “adequately reflect the Catholic Church’s teaching” on abortion and conscience.

As the athletic director at Mercy High School, Mary Ella Marion uses www.DigitalSports.com as a clearinghouse for information about her Magic teams.

UNITED NATIONS – People of faith can help build a brotherhood of humanity that can reach across international borders to achieve world peace, the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue said in an address to the General Assembly.

A Catholic group of priests, former priests and laypeople called on U.S. bishops Nov. 11 to condemn war.

Our Lady of the Fields, Millersville, parishioner Ligaya Quirk said it was a desire to thank men and women religious for their services that inspired the Archbishop Francis P. Keough Council Knights of Columbus Ladies Auxiliary to host a luau in their honor.