A five-month outreach project of Our Lady of Pompei Parish in Highlandtown and its Hispanic youth group netted more than 36,000 pounds of food, which is en route to Peru and the Don Bosco missions in the Andes.Read More

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien pledged the support of the Catholic Church in preventing youth violence during a March 23 press conference with Baltimore Mayor Shelia Dixon kicking off Youth Violence Prevention Week.Read More

WASHINGTON – Quantifying the costs of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States is a bit like trying to get your hands around the ocean.Read More

The poet W.B. Yeats spoke of a fellow Irishman: “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”Read More

On the television show “Glee,” high school glee club members are such social misfits that bullies chuck red slushies at their classmates.Read More

Recent letters to the editor discussed the goal of making Catholic schools “affordable and accessible” to non-Catholics. Donald Reitz (CR, March 12) raises several issues. Is it prejudicial to deny non-Catholics access to Catholic schools? Of course, it is – otherwise public taxes would be used to fund Catholic schools and they would be called...Read More

TOLEDO, Spain – Forty-four Cuban young people sat in the shade of a Toledo plaza, sampling deli sandwiches.Read More

Whether rich or poor, young or old, famous or unknown, recovering substance abusers spent the last few weeks crowding the dining room of Father Martin’s Ashley treatment center in Havre de Grace.Read More