VATICAN CITY - People either love or hate the TV cartoon series, “The Simpsons,” but there’s no doubt the 20-year-old series reflects very modern notions - and confusion - about religion and spirituality, the Vatican newspaper said.Read More

WASHINGTON – Orthodox Christians in predominantly Muslim Turkey “don’t feel that we enjoy our full rights as Turkish citizens,” the spiritual head of the world’s 300 million Orthodox told the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” Dec. 20.Read More

The Catholic News Service article, “NIH grants approval for stem-cell line research” (CR, Dec. 10), reports that NIH Director, Dr. Francis S. Collins, said that the 13 stem cell lines created for government funding of experimentation on humans were created following a “very detailed informed consent process” and the “stem-cell lines were derived from embryos...Read More

As pallbearers slowly guided Monsignor F. Dennis Tinder’s casket out of Immaculate Conception Church in Towson following his Dec. 12 funeral Mass, approximately 120 priests and deacons united their voices in a final tribute to their brother clergyman.Read More

Father Robert A. DiMattei, pastor of St. Athanasius in Curtis Bay, is in the midst of a St. Rose of Lima parish crash course.Read More

COLUMBUS, Ohio - When Ohio inmate Kenneth Biros was executed Dec. 8 with a one-drug lethal injection - the first person in the U.S. to be executed in this manner - the Ohio Catholic Conference did not specifically address the execution but instead reiterated the church’s opposition to all means of capital punishment.Read More

LAHORE, Pakistan – Catholics in northern Pakistan are preparing for quiet, scaled-back Christmas celebrations as militant attacks continue to terrorize the country.Read More

Monsignor F. Dennis Tinder died Dec. 4, days after his retirement as pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish in Towson.Read More