Jesuit Father Greg Boyle, who runs the largest gang intervention program in the U.S., will bury his 165th youth this week. The executive director of the Los Angeles-based Homeboy Industries, Father Boyle has gotten former gang members invited to the White House for dinner with Laura Bush, blessed the daughter of a gang member before...Read More

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s executive order reversing the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research represents “a sad victory of politics over science and ethics,” Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia said shortly after the March 9 signing of the order at the White House.Read More

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched a campaign to send e-mails with a pro-life message to members of Congress.Read More

LIMA, Peru – A series of drug arrests in the United States and the arrival of Mexican troops in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, have drawn increased attention to drug trafficking, a problem highlighted by the region’s Catholic bishops.Read More

About 500 Catholic and private school students, parents and teachers lobbied state officials March 4 with the hope of securing support for a crucial education bill.Read More

He has no recollection of the cab heading toward him, of his flying 25 feet through the air, of his body lying broken there on the roadside, of the helicopter trip to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.Read More

ROME – If using dolls to practice the baptismal ritual is a humbling experience for seminarians, one can imagine what it was like for someone who already had baptized hundreds of babies.Read More

It’s a Saturday morning in February, when many a working man is enjoying an extra hour of sleep. Cars pull off of Harford Road and onto the lot behind St. Ursula in Parkville, where sunrise over Essex peeks through bare trees.Read More