ANNAPOLIS – Catholic school leaders are decrying Gov. Martin J. O’Malley’s decision to cut $400,000 from a state program providing nonreligious textbooks and technology to nonpublic school students.Read More

Braving bone-chilling temperatures, hundreds of Catholics from the Archdiocese of Baltimore were among the tens of thousands of people who converged on the nation’s capital for the 35th-annual March for Life Jan. 22.Read More

WASHINGTON – Roe v. Wade, the 35-year-old Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion virtually on demand, “will not stand,” Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia said in his homily at a Jan. 21 evening Mass that opened the annual National Prayer Vigil for Life.Read More

NEW YORK – Then-Sen. John F. Kennedy’s eloquent defense of the separation of church and state in a 1960 address successfully deflected suspicion that his presidency would be governed by his Catholic religion.Read More

Though his father is a former Baltimore Oriole, senior Joe Orsulak – a phenomenal middle-distance runner for Loyola Blakefield – knew running, not baseball, was for him.Read More

ROME – Spanish-born Father Adolfo Nicolas, the newly elected superior general of the Jesuits, called on the more than 19,000 members of his order to strengthen their service to the poor and those excluded from the benefits of economic globalization.Read More

VATICAN CITY – U.S. Cardinal John P. Foley said his first trip to the Holy Land as grand master of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher was “both inspiring and informative.”Read More

ANNAPOLIS – Leaders from the Archdiocese of Baltimore are urging state lawmakers to pass a bill requiring law enforcement agencies to notify nonpublic school superintendents or principals when one of their students is arrested for a serious crime.Read More