CAPE TOWN, South Africa – With Zimbabwe’s power-sharing deal in jeopardy, the country’s leaders are playing politics at the expense of the suffering majority, a church official said.Read More

CLEVELAND – Colleen Kempf of Olmsted Falls has been charged with stealing $525,000 from St. Joseph Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in Cleveland where she worked until last fall. Kempf, 46, was charged with one count of theft and arraigned May 15 before Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Joseph D. Russo. Mary Ann Corrigan-Davis,...Read More

Dr. Jack Buchner tried to alter perceptions Oct. 4, with every ounce of energy he had.Read More

Monsignor Richard E. Parks was a sixth grader at the old St. Paul School in East Baltimore when a Franciscan sister asked him if he ever thought about becoming a priest. As an altar boy who served daily Mass at St. Paul, the young student had been a constant presence at his parish – helping...Read More

Put your money where your values are.Read More

Catonsville resident Jeanne Marie Hannon doesn't mind getting her hands dirty if it means slowly watching the plants at Catholic Charities' Gallagher Services in Timonium transform into colorful flowers or luscious vegetables. Cultivating plant life for the summer is an annual tradition for the St. Agnes, Catonsville, parishioner and client of the residential and day...Read More

If Eva Queral Fiastro could write a book about the three women who greatly impacted her life, it would focus on her mother and two nuns at Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson, from where she graduated in 1969.Read More

WASHINGTON – The emphasis on Jesus’ centrality to the Catholic faith in Pope Benedict XVI’s first book as pope is likely to permeate his papacy, panelists told a Washington audience during a book launch event for “Jesus of Nazareth” May 15. Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., and Vatican analysts George Weigel and John...Read More