Standing in front of a panel of judges to present her PowerPoint entry on the Titanic for a National History Day contest, Mara Franciscovich held her composure. Although judges tried to stump her with questions about the 46,000-ton ocean liner, the 13-year-old returned steady responses.Read More

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The Archdiocese of Los Angeles ordained 60 men to the permanent diaconate June 16. It was the largest group of deacons ordained at one time in the history of the archdiocese and possibly in the country.Read More

Now that St. Katharine Drexel in Frederick has been elevated from an independent mission to full-fledged parish status, Cardinal William H. Keeler has named Father Keith Boisvert the faith community’s first pastor effective July 1.Read More

After three years of serving the parishioners of Church of the Crucifixion, Glen Burnie, first as associate pastor and then as pastor, Father Erik Arnold has been reassigned as pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Ellicott City, effective Aug. 1.Read More

UPDATED WILMINGTON, Del. (CNS) -- A bill that eliminates Delaware's statute of limitations for civil suits in child sexual abuse cases and opens a two-year window for courts to hear old claims previously barred by the time limit is headed to the governor's desk after unanimous approval in the state House and Senate.Read More

MINDANAO, Philippines – Analiza Litohon puts on a good spread for her family: string beans, cabbage, sweet potatoes, cassava, eggplant, black beans, spring onions. All of it she grows in her own vegetable garden next to the home she shares with her husband, Julito, and their three young children, ages 1 to 4.Read More

The playground across the street from St. Martin’s church, Baltimore, was overgrown with weeds, the swings were broken, glass lay strewn all over the ground and many of the benches were damaged until a group of youth from the Baltimore/ Appalachia Work Camp arrived the week of June 17-22. A total of 160 youth and...Read More

UPDATED Following his June 25 release from The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Cardinal William H. Keeler is back at his downtown residence and will undergo outpatient rehabilitation at Mercy Medical Center, according to archdiocesan spokesman Sean Caine. Although the cardinal’s seven-day hospital stay following a June 18 surgery to drain an accumulation of cerebrospinal...Read More