MIAMI – Pardon the yawn, but that is how Cubans in Florida reacted to the news of Fidel Castro’s resignation as president of Cuba. “It’s a different dog with the same fleas,” said Monsignor Pedro Luis Perez, pastor of San Lazaro Parish in Hialeah, using a colloquial Spanish saying, “Es el mismo perro con otro...Read More

Three-fourths of Irvetta Lewis’ third-grade class at St. Katharine, Baltimore, raised their hands when asked if they had been nervous while reciting their greeting in unison to Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien on his first stop of a three-school tour Feb. 26. Yet six eighth-grade student ambassadors, sitting with the archbishop in casual conversation at the...Read More

Inclusionary housing. Destruction of the environment. Elections in Kenya. The death penalty. No matter what the issue, whenever a voice is needed to speak out for justice and peace, it’s there – thanks to the Murphy Initiative for Peace and Justice.Read More

The spirituality of sustainability is the focus of a one-day conference in Baltimore on April 26.Read More

WASHINGTON – In a presidential campaign where young people are being touted as a critical, active bloc of voters, students at Catholic colleges are equally caught up in the election fervor.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Catholic aid agencies must offer their workers continual spiritual formation so those in need can witness God’s merciful love, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More

It seemed unusual to me that “Annie” was alone as she pushed open the door to the funeral home and struggled to climb onto the bench to sit beside me. The 5-year-old had lost her teenage sister to cancer just four days before, and since then she was constantly being held by members of her...Read More

Even though Bob Reier is a parishioner of St. Louis, Clarksville, he eagerly chips in as an altar server at 9 a.m. each Sunday for the Baltimore basilica’s weekly Latin Mass.Read More