YAMAGATA, Japan – Kazuhiro Kikuchi, his wife, Kazuki, and two of their three children were staying at a large sports center-turned-evacuation center about 40 miles north of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, where officials were struggling to contain a potential nuclear disaster.Read More

VATICAN CITY – If U.S. Republicans and Democrats can promise to work together on economic policy – an area where they have legitimate differences – they also must try to cooperate in finding a health care plan that can serve the needy while respecting the sacredness of human life, said an influential Jesuit journal.Read More

LAHORE, Pakistan – Pakistani Christians said a Catholic businessman imprisoned for life for blasphemy was tortured and murdered and did not die of a heart attack as stated in a medical report.Read More

WASHINGTON – Bobby Schindler said he can see parallels between the case of a Canadian infant known as “Baby Joseph” and the situation of his late sister, Terry Schiavo, who died in 2005 13 days after a court ordered her feeding tube removed.Read More

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Carefully eying four round legs of what were to become part of a cabinet, Isaac Collin was making sure his handiwork aligned just right.Read More

WASHINGTON – Six days after a scathing grand jury report was released alleging past sexual abuse by clergy and other church personnel in the Philadelphia Archdiocese, attorney Gina Maisto Smith got to work examining reams of archived archdiocesan paperwork.Read More

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, Archbishop of Baltimore, has asked all Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of Baltimore to hold a special collection for the victims of last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. In a March 14 letter to all parishes, the Archbishop also called on Catholics to pray for “the suffering people of...Read More

A friendship that began decades ago at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore is paying dividends for the students of Holy Angels Catholic School.Read More