BEIT SAHOUR, West Bank – When the Christmas season comes around, Nadia Bannourah pushes back the living room sofas, removes the coffee table and drags over the big kitchen table in its place.Read More
DOVER, Pa. – Ed Goad points to the newspaper photo of the scruffy, bearded man wearing a floppy hat and living under the Jones Falls Expressway.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican media must unite their efforts to provide packages of word, sound and images to proclaim the Gospel to modern Internet users, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More
WASHINGTON – The University of San Francisco has angered some Catholics by giving Irish President Mary McAleese an honorary degree even though she has publicly supported gay rights and the ordination of women in the Catholic Church.Read More
BOSTON – The boosters of a Boston religion TV game show think of it as being styled after “Jeopardy!” But in looking at the age of the contestants, it could well pass for an even younger version of “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?”Read More
Malik Sterling Tillery Brogden slumped in front of a sofa Dec. 17 in his family’s Baltimore home. His mother, Margaret Brogden, sat just above him and placed her hand gently on his head, eliciting a smile from the 8-year-old boy.Read More
Women going through menopause don’t have to feel alone. “Red Hot Mommas,” a two-year-old program at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore, offers information and support for dealing with a time of life that can often be confusing or intimidating.Read More