The middle school students of Catholic Community School in South Baltimore recently donated change from their lunches, collected loose change at home, and performed the “chicken dance” in homeroom to raise $20 to benefit Heifer International, an organization providing farm animals and farming education to families in developing countries. The money purchased a flock of...Read More

Sharon Bogusz could not contain herself when she saw the number of people committing to the Catholic faith in Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion ceremonies.Read More

“This is really going to happen.” That same thought ran through the minds of Gwen Walton-White, Lisa Russell, Sonia Bui and Gene Luong March 1, as they approached the altar at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.Read More

They marched through the streets of Annapolis, carrying red-and-white signs reading, “Repeal Maryland’s Death Penalty.”Read More

After reading about the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility’s “green” index” (CR, Feb. 26), I was struck by the fact that I was reading this article on paper that is distributed by carbon-emitting U.S. Postal Service vehicles.Read More

As dozens of flickering candles gently illuminated the darkened church, hundreds of pilgrims reverently approached an icon of the crucifix laid out in the center aisle of St. Mary of the Assumption in Govans Feb. 27.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The latest church statistics show that the number of priests and seminarians around the world has been showing a modest, yet steady increase.Read More

WASHINGTON – A U.S. bishops’ pro-life official said Feb. 27 she is “gravely concerned” about the Obama administration’s move to review a proposal that would lift a regulation giving federal protection to the conscience rights of health care providers.Read More