Sixteen hours since he last had a full meal, 15-year-old Evan Kadan’s stomach was growling and he wasn’t feeling like himself.Read More

Even before the last pieces of meat are picked clean from the leftover Thanksgiving turkey, many Americans are already listening to Christmas carols on the radio and cramming into stores to buy holiday gifts.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Without the practice of Christian charity, the world today risks a disastrous fixation on personal self-interest, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

The national collegiate record 49 seasons Jim Phelan spent coaching men’s basketball at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg are part of the game’s lore.Read More

WASHINGTON – Several U.S. bishops have noted the historic nature of President-elect Barack Obama’s election as the first African-American to win the White House, with one describing it as “a moving and significant moment” and another expressing hope it will usher in “a new era of racial harmony.”Read More

BEIT SAHOUR, West Bank – Christian schools in the Holy Land, which generally work to keep politics out of the classroom, face continued financial pressure.Read More

Catholic Daughters of the Americas, St. John the Evangelist Court 2350, recently hosted a welcome luncheon for Father Joe Mndambo of the St. Philomena Mission Church in Clarendon, Jamaica, West Indies – a sister parish of St. John’s.Read More

PORTLAND, Ore. – Although Mary Barnes did not know much about the 1929 stock market crash that occurred when she was 5, she knew something was awry in the world. Mrs. Barnes, born Mary Oster, and her seven siblings, were shielded from the family’s budget woes by their parents.Read More