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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti desperately needs political stability so that jobs can be created to lift the poor out of a critical situation, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Policy.

TAYBEH, West Bank – On one night of their 31-mile trek through the West Bank, a group of 25 hikers was welcomed into a village during a wedding celebration. The next night they stayed in the modest homes of Palestinian families.

It’s a fact of female life – most women love handbags and shoes. To divert from the standard “bingo in a basement” event, the young-spirited Baltimore City Division I Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians (LAOH) are hosting a September event called “Bags to Riches” to profit Sisters Academy of Baltimore.

Ever since the 1975 release of the movie “Jaws,” the biggest summer injury fear has been about what lurks beneath the ocean ready to bite.

As the intensity around high school sports and student-athlete performance heats up, sports camps are more than just rolling out the balls.

Was “Humanae Vitae” (Of Human Life) prophetic? Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical condemning contraception has often been described that way, and, not to be coy about it, I’ve often called it prophetic myself. But with the 40th anniversary of this remarkable document at hand July 25, it’s worth considering where prophecy comes in.

The death of Cardinal Bernardin Gantin of Benin this past May 13 marked the passing of one of world Catholicism’s noblemen.