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BALTIMORE — Sandra Williams Ortega was stunned to see two high-ranking ROTC leaders standing on her front porch as she was coming home from classes at Morgan State College in Baltimore.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said his heart was "broken" by the war in Ukraine, and he pleaded again, "Silence the weapons!" "Many times, we prayed that this path would not be taken," he told people gathered in St. Peter's Square for the midday recitation of the Angelus prayer Feb. 27. But rather than giving up, he said, "we beg God more intensely."
Hundreds of Catholics gathered Feb. 28 for a midday Mass for Peace and Justice in Ukraine and Throughout the World, celebrated by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Feb. 25 at the White House that he has chosen a "proven consensus builder" by nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal appeals court judge, to serve on the Supreme Court.
The Maryland Catholic Conference has urged Catholics and other pro-lifers to actively oppose several bills being considered by the state's lawmakers in Annapolis that would broaden and strengthen abortion rights laws in Maryland.
MEXICO CITY — Prosecutors in El Salvador have brought charges against a former president for the murders of six Jesuits in 1989, a crime carried out by soldiers during a brutal civil war in the Central American country.
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is ready to facilitate negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state.
When leaders at Loyola University Chicago set out to find a way to discuss the upcoming world Synod of Bishops on synodality with students, they did not set out to host a dialogue with Pope Francis.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis knows his appeals for an end to the war in Ukraine carry little weight with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but he also knows he has an obligation to continue speaking out and rallying others to join him in praying for peace.
VATICAN CITY — Positive change must begin with oneself and with acknowledging one's own mistakes, Pope Francis said.
