JERUSALEM – Pilgrimage to the Holy Land can become a bridge to peace, said an Israeli tourism official, noting the positive effect the spring pilgrimage of Pope Benedict XVI had on creating cooperation between Palestinian, Jordanian and Israeli officials.Read More

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – Televangelist Oral Roberts, founder of the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla., died Dec. 15 at age 91 in Newport Beach from complications of pneumonia, according to his spokeswoman, Melany Ethridge.Read More

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The world must confront its current moral crises, ranging from hunger to environmental destruction, with “discernment and new thinking,” said the head of the Vatican delegation to the United Nations climate change conference.Read More

ANNAPOLIS – At a time of impending budget cuts, leaders of Maryland’s faith community came together outside the State House in Annapolis Dec. 15 to speak up for the poor and vulnerable.Read More

Loyola Blakefield had a solid crew of distance runners in the spring of 2007. The Dons found an extraordinary one when all of those upperclassmen were bested in the Billy Korrow Memorial 5K, a campus tradition, by an eighth-grader.Read More

Each year on the first Sunday of Advent, Father Jim would celebrate Mass for several families in our neighborhood at one of our homes. The Mass included the blessing of our Advent wreaths and was followed by dinner. Between Mass and dinner, he would regale us with the biography of an obscure saint – we...Read More

OTTAWA – Bishop Paul-Andre Durocher of Alexandria-Cornwall, Ontario, apologized for the clergy sexual abuse in his diocese and urged remaining survivors to come forward.Read More

WASHINGTON – The Washington Archdiocese expressed regret that a District of Columbia bill to legalize same-sex marriage was approved despite church opposition and without protecting religious freedom.Read More