WASHINGTON – While much of Washington focused on health care legislation, the annual release of the State Department’s country reports on human rights practices was largely out of the limelight this year, though the massive electronic document – more than 2 million words – helps shape U.S. policy approaches to the world.Read More

WASHINGTON – By bus from across the country and on foot from across town, an estimated 200,000 people flocked to the National Mall March 21 to press Congress and the president – with signs, banners, T-shirts, chants and prayers – to make good on promises to fix the immigration system.Read More

With two of his predecessors in attendance March 21, Monsignor J. Bruce Jarboe was officially installed by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien as the seventh rector of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.Read More

Some came to hear the speakers, others to see old friends. Still others came seeking spiritual growth and renewal. None left disappointed.Read More

Diana von Glahn admits her method can be “pretty random” for picking pilgrimage sites to feature on “The Faithful Traveler,” her new EWTN television show.Read More

VATICAN CITY – In a letter to Irish Catholics, Pope Benedict XVI personally apologized to victims of priestly sexual abuse and announced new steps to heal the wounds of the scandal, including a Vatican investigation and a year of penitential reparation.Read More

CLEVELAND – Whether they’re harvesting corn in a field or grilling corn at a barbecue at a city park, Catholics from the farms, suburbs and cities are connected by their faith and their kitchen tables.Read More

A new wrinkle has been added to the annual Youth and Young Adult Pilgrimage. Using an idea from Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, the March 27 walk through Baltimore City will start with the sacrament of reconciliation.Read More