WASHINGTON – Dr. Bernard N. Nathanson, once a leading figure in the movement to legalize abortion and to keep it legal, spent the last decades of his life raising awareness about the horrors of abortion and repenting for the tens of thousands of abortions for which he felt responsible.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The top church official in Libya said the country’s current unrest was based on legitimate requests by young people for a better future.Read More
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Long before there was the hit television program “Glee,” Bishop Luers High School in Fort Wayne was laying the groundwork for show-choir invitationals.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The head of a group of traditionalist Catholics said reconciliation talks with the Vatican would soon be coming to an end, with little change in the views of either side.Read More
TOWSON – Anthony Day, the principal of Loyola Blakefield School, was about to lead a prayer the morning of Feb. 21, when one of his guests asked to do so.Read More
WASHINGTON – A man who worked at the Salesian mission where a young Polish missionary priest was found murdered was arrested in connection with the death.Read More
TOWSON – When the Archdiocese of Baltimore consolidated 13 Catholic schools last year, members of religious communities were on the frontlines helping to ease the transition.Read More
DUBLIN – Repenting for the crimes of priestly sex abuse does not mean that the Irish Catholic Church can return to business as usual, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin told abuse survivors during a Feb. 20 prayer service joined by an American cardinal.Read More
ROME – As the second volume of “Jesus of Nazareth” was about to be published, a Swiss cardinal said it’s important that people realize the book was written by the theologian Joseph Ratzinger and not by Pope Benedict XVI.Read More
There is much laughter in the Project SERVE house on Mulberry Street as the young adults, who have come here for a year-long Peace Corps-style experience, explain what led them to the Catholic Charities program.Read More
WASHINGTON – High unemployment, growing poverty and record budget deficits are combining to dim the hope that the nation’s economy will gain traction quickly.Read More