Providing homes for unwed mothers is a necessary outreach for the pro-life movement, said Father Stefan Starzynski, a priest of the Arlington Diocese who has started two homes for unwed mothers.Read More

In a whirlwind tour that took him to the westernmost reaches of his new archdiocese, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien visited 18 parishes and schools in Frederick, Washington, Allegany and Garrett counties Oct. 4-7, the first pastoral visits the prelate has made since his Oct. 1 installation as Baltimore’s 15th archbishop.Read More

Longtime board member of Catholic Charities and generous contributor for the Archdiocese of Baltimore Joseph Peter “Blase” Cooke died Oct. 2 at his Glenwood home. The 60-year-old St. Louis, Clarksville, parishioner and married father of three sons had carcinoid cancer.Read More

The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate honored sociologist James D. Davidson of Purdue University in Indiana and Monsignor Francis J. Maniscalco, former U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops spokesman, for their contributions to church research.Read More

PISCO, Peru – Six weeks after an earthquake flattened 80 percent of the adobe brick homes in Pisco, the town on the Pacific coast 140 miles south of Lima, had only recently started to rumble consistently with the more welcome sound of heavy equipment hauling away tons of rubble.Read More

Unscrupulous operators are misleading some immigrants in the United States into false hopes about their chances of being granted legal status in Canada, Detroit-area immigration advisers warnedRead More

VATICAN CITY – The recent change at the helm of the Vatican newspaper marks an effort to revive a publication that has gone from glory days to malaise.Read More

WASHINGTON – A stack of reports helps define some of the human consequences of the gnarled U.S. immigration system.Read More