BETHLEHEM, West Bank – The wall. Pope Benedict XVI had to pass through a gate in Israel’s 26-foot-high security wall to get to Bethlehem to celebrate Mass May 13 near the birthplace of Jesus.Read More

WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s recent remarks expanding the definition of reproductive rights to include abortion have sparked criticism and warnings from a U.S. church official and a Catholic congressman.Read More

BETHLEHEM, West Bank – Pope Benedict XVI knelt in prayer at the spot where tradition holds Jesus was born, then went to a Catholic children’s hospital, where he held an infant boy named Elias in his arms.Read More

On April 26, 52 Girl Scouts from high schools in the Baltimore area received the Gold Award, the highest honor in Girl Scouting. Catholic schools were well represented in that number.Read More

The spirit of service was reinforced during the 2005-06 year through the example of Julie Billiart, the foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.Read More

Early this year a Baltimore woman asked me for an appointment to plead a very urgent cause. Years ago, after the birth of her first child, she consulted doctor after doctor, all of whom told her that her medical condition necessitated her sterilization. A strong, knowledgeable Catholic, she refused their counsel and finally found a...Read More

To Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien – congratulations on your clear, concise statement regarding the confusion set upon all of us by the University of Notre Dame and by our neighbor, Georgetown University, which sheepishly pretended not to be Catholic by removing the crucifix, etc. at the request of the White House.Read More

When Mary Catherine Bunting was asked why she would give $3 million of her money to Maryvale Preparatory School, she looked as though she didn’t have an answer.Read More