VATICAN CITY – The rights of circus and carnival workers must be protected and circus animals must be properly cared for and treated ethically, said a top Vatican official.Read More
GUATEMALA CITY – In what Catholic leaders deemed a bad example for society, Guatemala’s first couple divorced to allow now-former first lady Sandra Torres to run for president.Read More
VATICAN CITY - A Belgian bishop forced to retire after admitting to years of sexual abuse of his nephew told Belgian television that he had molested another nephew and that it had all started “as a game.”Read More
WASHINGTON – Presidents from Catholic universities around the world gathered together at The Catholic University of America April 12 for a round-table discussion addressing faculty and student interaction.Read More
NEW YORK – Addressing the continuing controversy over Pope Pius XII’s actions during World War II, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan expressed sympathy before a Jewish audience April 12 at researchers’ “present frustration about the pace of opening the Vatican Archives” from that period.Read More
Catholics from throughout the region are invited to participate in the May 7 Archdiocesan Pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.Read More
WASHINGTON – The board of directors of the Catholic Theological Society of America has raised concerns about the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine’s critical assessment of a Fordham University theology professor’s popular book.Read More
LONDON – A British bishop has welcomed a Scouting document that, among other things, allows for Scouts ages 14 and older to be taught about condoms.Read More
WASHINGTON – Douglas Kmiec, the U.S. ambassador to Malta, said an audit by the State Department’s inspector general that chided him for his “unconventional approach to his role” stemmed from the complaints of a handful of people within the agency who “seem to manifest a hostility to expressions of faith and efforts to promote better...Read More
Michael Brower took an odd path to becoming a record-setting swimmer. A senior at St. Maria Goretti High School in Hagerstown, Brower chose a school that doesn’t sponsor football, a sport he longed to play at the interscholastic level. Playing soccer instead, he joined the swim team as a freshman just to improve his fitness.Read More
Dr. Habib Malik of the Lebanese American University has been a friend for many years. Few men have such an informed and humane view of the sad, even desperate, position of Christians in the Middle East. As a Lebanese Maronite with a Harvard doctorate in intellectual history, what Dr. Malik knows comes from experience as...Read More