Approximately one year after its launch, the Mid-Atlantic Catholic Schools Consortium will gather educational leaders from across the region and around the country for a Sept. 19 summit designed to help shape the future of Catholic education in the Mid-Atlantic.Read More
WARSAW, Poland – When a Catholic priest who was murdered by communist agents is beatified in Warsaw June 6, it will confirm his place as one of the church’s most conspicuous modern martyrs.Read More
WASHINGTON – The University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education program has been placing college graduates as volunteer teachers in Catholic schools since 1994. That means the current participants were in elementary school when the program started and could have been taught by ACE teachers.Read More
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien announced May 18 that St. Pius X Catholic School in Rodgers Forge will become the first school in the archdiocese to offer its students a Montessori education. The school will introduce a primary program for children ages 3-6 in the 2011-12 school year.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The world’s wealth and resources do not belong to a select few, they also belong to the poor, Pope Benedict XVI said as he urged people to aid the needy and protect the environment. “Christ is present even in the poor so they must never be insulted,” abused or deemed worthless, the...Read More
SYDNEY, Australia – Christians in the Western world are being martyred by words in a war of ideology, said the president of the Federation of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania.Read More
Since officially becoming Transfiguration Catholic Community in 2004, the southwest Baltimore parish has held Mass in all three of its churches. Beginning in January, members of the parish will attend regular Mass only at St. Jerome at Scott and Hamburg streets, and future uses for St. Martin and St. Peter the Apostle remain uncertain.Read More
LISBON, Portugal – At a Mass for more than 100,000 people in Portugal, Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholics to re-evangelize society by witnessing the joy and hope of the Gospel in every sector of contemporary life.Read More
LONDON – A Scottish cardinal has announced his resignation from Amnesty International to protest the group’s new policy to fight for the decriminalization of abortion around the world.Read More
BEIT SAHOUR, West Bank – Bara’a Srur, 19, leaned over the edge of a sixteen-and-a-half foot wall with rappelling gear tied around his hips. His right hand held the rope tightly in place behind his back and he peered cautiously over his shoulder, down to where a counselor was holding the other end of the...Read More
WASHINGTON – A dozen Catholic organizations have joined other religious groups in calling for U.S. leadership to increase access to safe water for the world’s people. “Water is a gift from God to be preserved and shared for the benefit of all people and the wider creation,” said the Religious Working Group on Water’s statement,...Read More
Norma Urbina, a 23-year-old parishioner of St. Clare parish in Essex, thinks it can be difficult to be a Latino young adult in the Archdiocese of BaltimoreRead More