St. Frances Academy in Baltimore hosted a Sept. 17 dedication and unveiling of a banner for the Nick Adenhart Memorial Batting Cage. The Panthers baseball program received a much-needed donation from the Nick Adenhart Foundation in order to erect the cage. The foundation is named after the Maryland native and former Los Angeles Angels starting...Read More
VATICAN CITY – For making what he described as “the most difficult decision in my political life,” Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico was given a front-row seat at a papal audience and was to see Rome’s Colosseum lit up in honor of his state.Read More
VILLA FRANCIA, Dominican Republic – In regions of the Dominican Republic where food is scarce and farm work only nets $3 a day when it’s available, Food For The Poor is developing tilapia and agricultural centers to provide nourishment, industry and self-sufficiency.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Officials at the Vatican headquarters of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem welcomed U.S. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien as their new pro-grand master.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI called on Christians to turn to Mary, the mother of God, for help in being true friends of Jesus and courageous builders of peace.Read More
WARSAW, Poland – A Catholic journal has criticized the Polish church’s handling of sexual abuse by priests, following repeated claims that local church leaders failed to confront the problem.Read More
St. Paul will be the focus of this year’s annual John Carroll lecture series at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore.Read More
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. – While multitudes of people see the art of muralist Hildreth Meiere at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, a limited audience also gets to see her work up close at St. Mary’s High School in Manhasset and at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington.Read More
NEW YORK – Politics is a good thing, participation in public life is a moral obligation and Catholics need to do a better job of linking their beliefs to their actions, according to speakers at a Sept. 6 conference on “Faithful Citizenship: Voters, Bishops and Presidential Elections.”Read More
Few recipients of the Doris Musil Award for Excellence in Catholic Education Leadership have ever felt a stronger tie to the honor’s namesake than School Sister of Notre Dame Irene Pryle.Read More
Every book 7-year-old Luke Koehler has checked out from the library has been on how to draw something – dinosaurs, pyramids, people, you name it.Read More