WASHINGTON – Catholic bishops around the country are reminding state legislatures and their fellow citizens that the nation’s budgetary problems are not over and must not be resolved on the backs of the poor.Read More

DETROIT – Avid outdoorsman and hunter Father Joe Classen, associate pastor at Holy Spirit Parish in Maryland Heights, Mo., has a permit to carry a concealed weapon.Read More

PHILADELPHIA – In a reprise of 2005’s sensational grand jury report of sexual assaults by clergy in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams released a new report Feb. 10 by a grand jury investigating similar abuse.Read More

OXFORD, England – More than 140 Catholic theologians from universities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland called for the church to take serious steps to address the problems of the priest shortage by allowing married priests and women to have more active roles in church ministry and allowing laypeople to help select bishops and pastors, among...Read More

ANNAPOLIS – A Senate hearing room was filled beyond capacity Feb. 8 as members of the Judicial Proceedings Committee heard passionate testimony for and against a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland.Read More

Redemptorist and archdiocesan leaders unveiled a plan Feb. 5-6 to establish a new bicultural, bilingual parish at Sacred Heart of Jesus in Highlandtown.Read More

WASHINGTON – The effort to make permanent a ban on federal funding of abortion is both long overdue and widely supported by Americans, an official of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops told a House subcommittee Feb. 8.Read More

One of the great joys I have experienced in my visits to parishes and schools in our Archdiocese over the past three-plus years has been the witness of so many dedicated lay Catholics who serve the Church in many and diverse ways.Read More