MINNEAPOLIS – The news media look at poverty issues – when they bother to look at all – with a negative connotation, according to the co-author of one study.Read More
Standing in front of Mercy High School, Baltimore, students last year, a small unassuming nun challenged the teens to consider what they could do to make the world a better place.Read More
Zack Burke, the head boys’ lacrosse coach for Archbishop Spalding High School in Severn, is the father of two young sons, with one on the way.Read More
ANNAPOLIS – Scared, unmarried and alone, Tracy Tiernan didn’t think she had many options when she became pregnant. She went to a Severna Park abortion clinic and dealt with her “problem” in the way society told her was okay.Read More
KINSHASA, Congo – A group of Congolese bishops has denounced the international community’s tolerance of increasing hostilities in eastern Congo, which they called a “silent genocide” against the civilian population there.Read More
In the quaint fenced courtyard at the entrance to the friary at St. Casimir in Canton, the sweet chirping of birds can be heard, seemingly from the surrounding trees.Read More
As the House of Delegates prepares to vote on a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, Catholics will join others in the faith community for a March 11 prayer vigil in support of traditional marriage.Read More
BALTIMORE – The Catholic Campaign for Human Development cut off funding earlier this year to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, for reasons unrelated to the organization’s current troubles over voter registration and partisan politics, reported the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ subcommittee on CCHD.Read More
WARSAW, Poland – The remains of the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, France, have been exhumed as French Catholics await the couple’s expected beatification.Read More
Organizers of the first Mid-Atlantic Congress for Pastoral Leadership planned for March 8-10, 2012, in Baltimore said the aim of the gathering will be to offer pastoral leaders “the best of Catholic pastoral practices, religious education/catechesis and theology.”Read More
The pipe organ plays heavenly music once more at the newly reopened Provincial Chapel of the Sisters of Bon Secours at Bon Secours Spiritual Center in Marriottsville.Read More