PHOENIX – The Arizona Senate voted down five immigration bills March 17 that proponents argued would crack down on illegal immigration even further than last year’s S.B. 1070, which is still hung up by court challenges.Read More

Dogs don’t bite Jeanie Mossa Kraft. That’s because the licensed herbalist and acupuncturist is like “Dr. Doolittle with needles. I’ve had people tell me that,” she said. “They know what I’m doing is going to help their pet.”Read More

A friendship that began decades ago at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore is paying dividends for the students of Holy Angels Catholic School.Read More

WASHINGTON – A U.S. cardinal who has worked at the Vatican for 12 years harshly criticized President-elect Barack Obama Nov. 13, saying he has “an agenda and vision that are aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic.”Read More

Deacon Paul H. Dignan, a member of the first class of permanent deacons from Allegany County, died March 7 at age 80. Capuchin Franciscan Father Eric Gauchat offered a March 11 funeral Mass at St. Patrick in Cumberland – Deacon Dignan’s home parish and the faith community he served throughout his diaconate.Read More

Our Lady of the Fields, Millersville, parishioner Ligaya Quirk said it was a desire to thank men and women religious for their services that inspired the Archbishop Francis P. Keough Council Knights of Columbus Ladies Auxiliary to host a luau in their honor.Read More

Eighteen years ago, Cornelia Ellis walked into Franklin Square Hospital and knew that she was about to be handed her adopted son, Chris. She looked at him and felt the weight of his future on her hands.Read More

November is the month of All Souls, the month dedicated to praying for the souls of the faithful departed. But what are we praying for?Read More