John McGinty sat down at a table in the basement of the Loyola/Notre Dame Library Sept. 12 with a soda can in hand and breathed a sigh of relief. He looked around and marveled at his surroundings.Read More
CUMBERLAND – Bishop Walsh School in Cumberland has recently adopted a president-principal administrative model, joining a growing list of Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore that have done the same. Of the 21 high schools in the archdiocese, 12 already employ a president-principal model. The John Carroll School in Bel Air announced this...Read More
VATICAN CITY – A spate of U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks portray the Vatican as horrified over clerical sex abuse in Ireland but also deeply concerned that the procedures used by Irish investigators of the scandal were “an affront to Vatican sovereignty.”Read More
Dr. Diane Dippold MacIntosh wanted to give something back to her high school because, she said, it gave so much to her. That’s the reason she funded a collection of books and library materials for the Mother Philemon Doyle Library in Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson. The collection by, for, and about women consists of...Read More
For months, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Baynesville music director Thomas Bozek had been anxiously awaiting the arrival of his church’s new pipe organ the way a father anticipates a baby.Read More
KIEV, Ukraine – The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church has defended his decision to support President Viktor Yushchenko’s recent dismissal of parliament, which some argue has deepened a constitutional crisis. “Our declaration didn’t back any party – it merely recalled that the church has not forgotten people, nor has God,” said Cardinal Lubomyr Husar...Read More
YAMBIO, Southern Sudan – When church bells ring in the villages nestled throughout the forest along the Congolese-Southern Sudan border, they are usually calling people to Mass. Yet these days, the bells can also ring out danger, alerting villagers to the threat posed by a Ugandan rebel group that has moved into the region, sowing...Read More
CUTTACK, India – Suresh Nayak, a Catholic from Orissa state’s Kandhamal district, cannot overcome the experience of being forced, under the threat of death, to convert to Hinduism.Read More
Anyone who has faced trauma in his or her life can speak quite clearly about all of those feelings, because it is the living reality of any traumatic event. I would imagine that for many in Blacksburg, Va., and on the campus of Virginia Tech, many people have experienced if not all at least one...Read More