ROME – Delegates to the General Congregation of the Society of Jesus voted Jan. 14 to accept the resignation of Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach as superior general.Read More

WASHINGTON – The immediate future looks a bit grim for those who work on trying to improve the lot of immigrants in the United States.Read More

A second collection Jan. 19-20 will give Catholics in the archdiocese the opportunity to support priests requiring special medical in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, as well as those priests – regardless of age – who are convalescing following surgery, serious injury or illness.Read More

In memory of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Office of African American Ministries of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the American Red Cross will sponsor a blood donation drive and a bone marrow testing Jan. 21 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at St. Frances Academy, Baltimore.Read More

WARSAW, Poland – Turkey’s Catholic bishops marked the 2,000th anniversary year of the birth of St. Paul in the southern Turkish city of Tarsus and outlined preparations for the Pauline year.Read More

PALA, Calif. – If parishioners at Mission San Antonio de Pala seem to have a sunny disposition these days, perhaps it’s because for the first time since the old mission’s founding in 1816 much of its electricity is coming from solar power.Read More

SAN FRANCISCO – Students and campus ministry officials at Jesuit-run University of San Francisco are mapping sites where sex trafficking goes on in an effort to help humanitarian organizations combat what they term a blight of modern-day slavery in the city.Read More

WASHINGTON – Members of the Survivors’ Network of those Abused by Priests are calling for Cardinal Bernard F. Law’s retirement and subsequent removal from eight Vatican congregations before the pope’s visit to the United States in April.Read More