St. Maria Goretti High School, Hagerstown, has appointed Richard Fairley as principal effective July 1, replacing Christopher M. Siedor.Read More

The 27th annual Brooks Robinson All-Star baseball game took place on June 14 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Each year, it gives baseball enthusiasts, young and old alike, a chance to see potential major league baseball players in the making.Read More

WASHINGTON – Theologian Georgia Masters Keightley believes the way Catholics live out their faith obligations to social activism ought first to be by creating neighborhood food pantries and participating in town council elections.Read More

WASHINGTON – Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, an award-winning physician and AIDS researcher, was among six recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom June 19 in the East Room of the White House.Read More

As Deacon Gregory Rapisarda of St. Margaret, Bel Air, stood in the sanctuary of the nation’s first cathedral and watched his son John Christopher Rapisarda become a priest for the Archdiocese of Baltimore June 21, a sense of awe came over him.Read More

Three Nigerian men seeking the priesthood made their First Temporary Profession June 22 at St. Veronica, Cherry Hill. Two of the men, George Bede Ajuruchi, N.S.S.J., and Leo Udeagu, N.S.S.J., served at St. Veronica during the past year under pastor Father Augustine Inwang, M.S.P.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Although bitterly criticized as burdensome on Catholic couples when it was published in 1968, the encyclical “Humanae Vitae” has ended up defending the freedom of women and the fullness of married love, a top Vatican official said.Read More

QUEBEC CITY – Christians “are hardly yet able to speak of a common table” when it comes to Communion, the Canadian Council of Churches president told a few hundred people at the 49th International Eucharistic Congress.Read More