WASHINGTON – As seven Republican candidates for president prepared for a June 13 debate in New Hampshire and others waited in the wings, there were signs that religion will play as big a role in the 2012 election as it has in other recent campaigns.Read More
LOS ANGELES – During a candid and open exchange with Catholic high school students in Los Angeles, actress America Ferrera, star of the television show “Ugly Betty,” encouraged young people to overcome any obstacles in the way of achieving their dreams and to take advantage of unexpected opportunities.Read More
MEXICO CITY – American Bob Decker leads mission groups through the ramshackle neighborhoods of Ciudad Acuna, where poorly paid factory workers drawn from impoverished pockets of Mexico originally built tiny cardboard dwellings.Read More
Our pope spoke (CR, Jan. 8) eloquently and let us hope persuasively about the global economic crisis when he said “are we ready to read it in all its complexity as a challenge for the future and not just an emergency needing short term responses?” The pope’s prescription needs to be taken seriously. The politicians...Read More
Kids are flocking to it. It’s an off-season program that makes student-athletes faster, stronger and better, and it’s free to the student body of Archbishop Spalding High School, Severn.Read More
The last thing Emily Montoya, Sarah Baer, Sara Caton, Jessica Sweitzer and Rebecca Stevick are going to do as students of Seton Keough won’t be tossing their graduation caps in the air, as they did May 26.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI asked young Catholics to use their computers, Facebook accounts, blogs and Internet video posts to share with their peers the joy of faith in Christ.Read More
Talk about a whirlwind week for the Mount de Sales Academy swim team. To start the week, the Catonsville Sailors faced perennial power McDonogh School on Jan. 23 during their regular IAAM A Conference season and up-ended McDonogh’s 51-game winning streak for the win. The team took that momentum right into Jan. 27 and the...Read More
DE PERE, Wis. – Through all his years as an author and as an educator, Norbertine Father Alfred McBride has invited people to grow in their faith and in their relationship with God.Read More
WASHINGTON – When the tens of thousands of participants at the annual March for Life returned to their homes, some after longer bus rides than others, many of them put away their placards, marching gear and talking points for another year.Read More