The University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore will lead international adult stem-cell research that has the support of the Vatican.Read More
VATICAN CITY - To emerge from the sex abuse crisis, priests must make it clear that they are on the side of truth and the victims of abuse, said an article in the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.Read More
BECKLEY, W.Va. – President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Bishop Michael J. Bransfield of Wheeling-Charleston and other dignitaries and religious leaders gathered with thousands from West Virginia April 25 to pay tribute to the 29 miners who lost their lives in the explosion at Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal.Read More
WASHINGTON – Everyone on the panel at The Catholic University of America to discuss “The Ethics of the Obama Administration’s Nuclear Weapons Policy: Catholic Perspectives” seemed to indicate that the eventual elimination of nuclear arms is a goal.Read More
Amen Archbishop O’Brien! Your column (CR, April 15) headlined “Bait and Switch” hit a bull’s-eye, pointing out the cynical deception of the life-affirming series of photos in the Howard Street windows of Planned Parenthood, Maryland’s largest abortion provider. Planned Parenthood also successfully pressured the Baltimore City Council and Mayor Rawlings-Blake to pass an ordinance requiring...Read More
The Catholic Review (April 15 and 22) has discussed the defeat of the BOAST bill in the Annapolis legislature; it would have benefited non-public school children. The bill was never voted on by the entire House of Delegates, but was killed in committee.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI is planning to create a Roman Curia department charged with overseeing the “re-evangelization” of traditionally Christian countries, an Italian newspaper reported.Read More
LINTHICUM –The Catholic Review’s gun buy-back campaign took a pair of first-place honors at the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association annual awards convention.Read More
When staff members of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Division of Youth and Young Adult Ministry put calls out to people they wanted to honor at its annual recognition celebration April 22, the responses were universally humble.Read More
LONDON – The British government has apologized to the Vatican for an official memo that proposed the launch of “Benedict condoms” and the opening of an abortion clinic as part of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain.Read More
Archbishop William D. Borders' April 23 funeral at Cathedral of Mary Our Queen brought together political figures, ecumenical leaders and friends.Read More
WASHINGTON - Two survivors of clergy sexual abuse who met with Pope Benedict XVI during his 2008 visit to Washington are planning to take their pleas for greater recognition of the spiritual, pastoral and mental health needs of abuse victims to the doorstep of the Vatican Oct. 31.Read More