CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The Catholic bishops of Botswana, South Africa and Swaziland have used diocesan funds to buy food and medicine for Zimbabweans and urged Catholics in their countries to help provide immediate relief to their suffering neighbors.Read More
WASHINGTON – Despite the threat that the Securities and Exchange Commission will limit the future use of shareholder resolutions, a top official of Christian Brothers Investment Services said he expects the use of such resolutions to continue and to gain support in 2008.Read More
Bum died. His real name was Norman “Jake” Springer. But he called himself Bum. He died April 15. His life came due the same date our taxes came due.Read More
WASHINGTON – Internet rumors to the contrary, no Catholic hospital in the United States is in danger of closing because of the Freedom of Choice Act.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI entrusted the cause of world peace to the martyrs of World War II concentration camps, including a German priest executed for his hostility to the Nazi regime.Read More
While Archdiocese of Baltimore officials discuss the future of Catholic schools, Church of The Ascension in Halethorpe believes its 80-year-old educational institution is vital to the community’s future.Read More
Both Loyola Blakefield, Towson, and Archbishop Spalding High School, Severn, came into the MIAA volleyball finals as second seeds, yet both came out victorious on Nov. 2 at Archbishop Spalding.Read More
Loyola Blakefield drama teacher Christian Garretson has long admired his school’s commitment to summer service trips for students, but wanted to take it a step further.Read More
WASHINGTON – Kevin Ryan, the new president and CEO of Covenant House, is no stranger to the pressing needs today’s troubled youths are facing.Read More
WASHINGTON – Although “the prospect of Iran developing nuclear weapons is unacceptable,” the U.S. government must exhaust every option before considering military action to resolve the situation, the chairman of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ Committee on International Policy told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.Read More