Kermit the Frog once sang “It’s not easy being green.” The leaders at the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s downtown headquarters beg to differ, however.Read More

All the bar graphs on 10-year-old Anna Borkowski’s “Fitness Gram” are filled in solidly. And on the Pacer Test – the cardiovascular endurance portion of her school’s fitness test – the St. Ursula, Parkville, student broke the fifth-grade girls’ record. “She’s amazing,” said running coach and physical education teacher Kim Altenburger, noting that the record...Read More

When the Oblate Sisters of Providence say you can have a ball without leaving home, they really mean it.Read More

Five years ago on graduation day, dumpsters at Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, were filled with lamps, Swiffer mops, unopened food, and kitchen supplies. But thanks to the Good Stuff Campaign developed by Loyola’s Center for Community Service and Justice, the college’s dumpsters remained nearly empty and the donation collection bins were full as undergraduates...Read More

So you think you have a vocation to the priesthood? Try these steps to conquer your fear or confusion.Read More

Not long ago, Aminata Yattara sat at home on a stool in the dirt, pounding millet and dreaming about the day she could toss the pestle and pick up a pencil. School dominated her thoughts on her way to pull water from the well. She thought about it when she helped her mom wash dishes....Read More

WASHINGTON – An overseer of the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, expects the incoming president to fully embrace the $48 billion package to provide treatment and prevention campaigns globally.Read More

After reading Tony Hall’s letter about “chatter” at Mass (CR, May 3), I must say that I agree with his call to make sure that electronic parishioners are silenced during Mass, but I can’t say the same for his condemnation of “socializing” before Mass.Read More