Kicking off Catholic Schools Week in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien encouraged St. Maria Goretti High School and eighth-graders from St. Mary School to not be afraid “to take a strong stand,” in their daily lives.Read More
WASHINGTON – Three weeks of intermittent heavy rain have led to a spike in the number of cholera cases in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince and in several rural areas where health care workers are struggling to handle the surge. The rain also caused flooding in low-lying areas and mudslides in the hills around the...Read More
Russell Shaw (CR, Jan. 8) rightly encourages the “Catholic left” to re-evaluate President-elect Obama’s pro-abortion ferocity. Here we are on the goal line facing his administration’s jumbo package Freedom of Choice Act. “Freedom of Choice” is golden. Major manufacturers advertise products as “America’s Choice!” “The Right Choice!” or “The Choice of Today.” The American psyche...Read More
DES MOINES, Iowa – One grass-roots effort to make politicians aware of what central Iowa residents say are their concerns – immigration, education, health care and economic justice – has reached fruition in several Iowa Catholic parishes.Read More
CATONSVILLE – Conner Croxson has been a student page in the Maryland General Assembly, a mentor for a group that uses running to build self-esteem in young girls, the de facto head of the cheer team at Mount de Sales Academy and the founder of an outreach there.Read More
WASHINGTON – With thousands of pro-life marchers packed into the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Jan. 21 for a special Mass that launched an all-night vigil, Rita Richardson of Fredericksburg, Va., couldn’t see the altar.Read More
GHENT, Belgium – More than five dozen victims of clergy sexual abuse have filed a class-action suit against the Catholic Church – including the Holy See – for failing to prevent the abuse.Read More
St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, now features two stained glass light boxes in their new entrance, based on the mandala prayer drawings by former art therapist and Daughter of Charity Sister Ellen LaCapria, who regularly uses mandala in her prayer.Read More
Corenta Mukantamati uprooted herself and her daughter from war-torn Rwanda 13 years ago, moving from country to country in Africa. Finally, she was granted permission to immigrate to the United States last December.Read More