WASHINGTON – Nonprofit organizations, often seen as the last bastion separating people from poverty, may find themselves on shakier financial footing because of the current economic upheaval, a panelist suggested during a Nov. 4 forum in Washington sponsored by the Urban Institute.Read More
JERUSALEM – In the Middle East, some analysts said U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s election gives Palestinians temporary hope, but few see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on his immediate agenda.Read More
Michael Thomas feels compelled to reach out to his spiritual predecessors. The Cardinal Gibbons School junior also wants to make sure ethnic genocide never happens again.Read More
A newly installed Rodgers Trillium Masterpiece three-manual organ was installed in St. Peter the Apostle, Libertytown, and will be dedicated in a concert Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. After a fire destroyed the original church in June 2004, the custom-made Rodgers digital pipe organ was purchased with parishioner and community donations during a capital campaign.Read More
The morning after Barack Obama became the first African-American ever elected president of the United States, Skipp Sanders and fellow black Catholics in Baltimore rejoiced.Read More
PENSACOLA, Fla. – A Florida bishop is urging Vice President-elect Joseph Biden to examine his conscience before receiving Holy Communion in light of his public support of keeping abortion legal.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Although he said he had been shocked by Pope Benedict XVI’s 2006 speech in Regensburg, Germany, the grand mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina said he felt the best way to respond was to seek a dialogue.Read More
I read Michael Madden’s response (CR, Oct. 16) to my letter, which stated that I was incorrect when I said Congress “prepares the budget.” Let’s look at the recent so-called “bail out” bill that the President sent to Congress which was three pages long and rejected by Congress. However, when a 400-plus page bill designed...Read More