VATICAN CITY – An insensitive, hardened heart, over-confidence and world-weary smugness keep people from experiencing the true joy and love found in Jesus Christ, said Pope Benedict XVI.Read More

Many consider the first decade of the new millennium to have been a mostly difficult one.Read More

ARMAGH, Northern Ireland – Cardinal Cahal Daly, the former primate of all Ireland and an outspoken critic of paramilitary violence and poverty in Northern Ireland, was a man “ahead of his time,” his successor told mourners.Read More

As Larry M. Beck and the leadership of Good Samaritan Hospital searched for a chief operating officer in 2006, their charge went beyond landing someone who knew his way around a ledger.Read More

WASHINGTON – Veteran astronomer Jesuit Father George V. Coyne, a Baltimore native, was honored by the American Astronomical Society for his work in building a Vatican-sponsored summer school for young astronomers and promoting discussions on the intersection of religion and science.Read More

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien had the look of a proud father as he stood inside the archbishop’s residence in Baltimore Dec. 30.Read More

When Kayla Cservek was studying theology at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, some of her friends in the on-campus seminary occasionally teased her about her birthday.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s personal secretary visited the woman responsible for knocking the pope down during a Christmas Eve Mass.Read More