WASHINGTON – When school ended for the summer break in May, most students went home and started their vacation. But that was not the case for Carlos Rivas and about 30 others.Read More

MAALOULA, Syria – Aramaic, the language of Jesus that flourished in villages thousands of years ago, is being kept alive in the Syrian desert, about an hour’s drive from Damascus.Read More

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – In 2001, some “lost boys of Sudan” arrived in the U.S. and the first phase of their long run from the horrors of their homeland’s civil war was fading in the distance.Read More

Few people know the western vicariate as well as Deacon Charles Hiebler Jr. Since 2002, he has served as Bishop W. Francis Malooly’s assistant in the western vicar’s office and coordinator for planning and council services for the western vicariate.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Because Eluana Englaro is alive, caregivers must continue to give her food and water, said the president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life.Read More

TANGSHAN, China – A Chinese Catholic bishop said the local church’s engagement in society has enabled him to carry the Olympic torch on its way to Beijing.Read More

Sister Mary Louise Lynch’s 60 years as a Medical Mission Sister will be celebrated Aug. 15 with a Mass and reception at the sisters’ North American headquarters in Philadelphia. A Baltimore native, Sister Mary Louise entered the Medical Mission Sisters in 1944 after high school. She received a journalism degree from Marquette University and a...Read More

Ten institutions of the Archdiocese of Baltimore were among 34 organizations to receive grants from the Knott Foundation, which was founded in 1977 by Marion I. and Henry J. Knott.Read More