Visitation Academy in Frederick is staying put.Read More

JERUSALEM – On his first day in Jerusalem, Pope Benedict XVI visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and said the suffering of Jews under the Nazi extermination campaign must “never be denied, belittled or forgotten.”Read More

AMMAN, Jordan – Walking a pilgrim’s path in Jordan, Pope Benedict XVI energized its minority Christian population and built bridges to the moderate Muslim world.Read More

In his book, “Jesus before Christianity,” Father Albert Nolan, currently provincial for the South African Province of the Dominicans, says that “there is no mistaking the two quite different ways in which power and authority are understood and exercised. It is the difference between domination and service.”Read More

Mary Ann Glendon’s refusal to accept the Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame (CR, April 30) does not square with her former position as ambassador to the Vatican, where diplomacy usually trumps ideology. She is however, entitled to follow the dictates of her conscience.Read More

The following excerpts are from a letter that was sent to Father John I. Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame:Read More

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will ordain 13 deacons for the Archdiocese of Baltimore in a 10 a.m. liturgy at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland May 23.Read More

VATICAN CITY – As Pope Benedict XVI prepared to visit Israel in early May, Jewish leaders involved in dialogue appeared to be hopeful and not particularly wary about what the pope would say.Read More