VATICAN CITY – An international conference dedicated to combating racism unfortunately was used as a platform for taking “extreme and offensive political positions the Holy See deplores and rejects,” said the chief Vatican representative to U.N. agencies in Geneva.Read More

WASHINGTON – To help fill vacancies and meet the underrepresented faith needs of airmen, the Air Force is offering a scholarship for individuals who want to become service chaplains.Read More

When the economy had some college seniors worrying about finding jobs after graduation, Cassandra Bales remained calm.Read More

St. Joseph, Cockeysville, parishioner Allis Kensing wanted to be a nurse for as long as she can remember.Read More

The murder of a Loyola College in Maryland sophomore, along with her three family members, has sent the school’s campus reeling.Read More

WASHINGTON – Asian-born men make up 11 percent of the ordination class of 2009 even though the number of Asian Catholics in the United States hovers around 3 percent of the total Catholic population, an annual survey of incoming priests has found.Read More

WASHINGTON – Led by a coalition of more than a dozen Catholic organizations, religious communities are ramping up efforts to ensure that the legislative debate on climate change beginning April 22 in Congress will not overlook the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people.Read More

Final exam of the semester. Melissa hands me her exam. Everyone else has left. She pauses, looks at me with glistening eyes, and blurts out “I don’t know how to thank you. Your class has changed me forever.”Read More