WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has been ranked as one of the top “green” religious leaders by the online environmental magazine Grist.Read More

Russell Shaw’s recent column (“Catholics Not Claiming to Be Better Than Others,” CR Aug. 2) was one of the best efforts I have seen so far in trying to explain the supposed true motives of Pope Benedict’s recent attempt to drive home the point that the Catholic Church is special in the eyes of God.Read More

As a seminarian in the 1960s, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien was considered serious, yet jocular, and fellow classmates wouldn’t have necessarily picked him out as the cleric in their class to become one of the most respected U.S. Catholic leaders.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Although Iraq has a democratic government, Iraqi Christians were safer and had more protection under former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, said the future head of the Vatican’s interreligious dialogue council.Read More

WASHINGTON – The national collection to aid the church in Latin America received more than $7 million in contributions for the first time last year and used the funds to assist 476 projects in nearly two dozen countries.Read More

They included a former teacher, a lawyer and an editor. They ranged in age from 19-43 and they were natives of familiar places like Lansdowne and Libertytown and not-so-familiar hometowns in Africa and Latin America. But what united these diverse men was a desire to become priests for the Archdiocese of Baltimore. All but one...Read More

VATICAN CITY – With a new director at the helm, the Vatican publishing house is turning a new page.Read More

Thirteen is no unlucky number for Father Gerard Francik, vocations director for the Archdiocese of Baltimore.Read More