Richard Horwitt is a very busy guy. The 64-year-old retiree works three days a week driving an adult day care center van. He tutors English for the Ignatian Volunteer Corps (IVC) at Catholic Charities’ Hispanic Apostolate in Fells Point. He’s involved with the Service, Justice and Life Commission in his parish, St. Joseph, Sykesville. He’s...Read More

NAPLES, Italy – A group of 348 homeless people, including 115 children, occupied a historic basilica in Naples, demanding that government officials find them permanent public housing.Read More

LONDON – Almost 300 Catholic priests, nuns and monks marched on Britain’s Parliament to demand stronger measures to tackle global warming.Read More

A pair of lions are making their mark on the field events in the IAAM B Conference for track and field this season.Read More

Amanda Brown wasn’t planning to make a career out of working with inner-city youths. That was before she began volunteering with the Notre Dame Mission Volunteer Program/Notre Dame AmeriCorps, a public-private initiative that encourages volunteerism among young people.Read More

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious appointed Sister Jane Burke, S.S.N.D., as its next executive director. Sister Jane served for eight years as the provincial leader of the School Sisters of Notre Dame’s Baltimore province, and most recently was the national manager for the Justice for Immigrants Campaign, sponsored by the United States Conference of...Read More

LONDON – The sainthood cause of a 19th-century English cardinal has taken a step forward after the Vatican’s medical commission ruled that there was no natural explanation for the healing of a U.S. deacon who prayed for the cardinal’s intercession.Read More

SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy – Venerating the relics of St. Padre Pio is a reminder that the saints were real men and women who lived for God, said Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes.Read More