During the 1980s, computers weren’t for the cool kids.Read More

As the new girl at St. Rita School in Dundalk, Laura Klym timidly entered her first-grade classroom knowing most of her fellow classmates had established friendships from kindergarten and that finding kinship wouldn’t be an easy task.Read More

JINOTEGA, Nicaragua – Many people know her simply as “the tortilla lady.”Read More

Sarah’s Hope Outreach Center, a homeless shelter in Rosedale operated by St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore, has expanded its services to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.Read More

SAN FRANCISCO – A San Francisco Board of Supervisors resolution harshly critical of official Catholic teaching on adoption by same-sex couples crosses the constitutional line between church and state and should be thrown out as unlawful, an attorney for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights told a federal appeals court panel.Read More

WASHINGTON – The day after Hispanic congressmen gathered with priests and Hispanic families to pray that wisdom be granted to members of the Senate, a bipartisan bill to reform immigration failed to garner the votes needed to move into voting on the issue. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., a member of the Hispanic Congressional Caucus, led...Read More

VALENCIA, Spain – In 2002, Carlo Ravasio trekked more than 2,000 miles from Moscow to Valencia, stopping by churches along the way to pray for the unity of Christians.Read More

LIMA, Peru – From the forests of Honduras and the highlands of Guatemala to the Andes Mountains and the Amazon rain forest, church leaders and grass-roots Catholics are facing off against loggers, gold miners, ranchers and oil companies. Some have paid with their lives. Others, such as Bishop Erwin Krautler of Xingu, Brazil, have received...Read More