The 1957 graduating class of Mother Seton School in Emmitsburg recently reunited with classmates and fifth-grade teacher Sister Natalie McCubbin, a Daughter of Charity.Read More

WASHINGTON – World Youth Day events typically draw hundreds of thousands of youths and in some countries they have reached or surpassed the 1 million mark. This year’s event in Sydney, Australia, July 15-20 will be on a much smaller scale.Read More

VATICAN CITY – German-born Pope Benedict XVI said he still feels “pain for what happened” in his homeland in 1938 when Nazi mobs went on the rampage against Jews, an event that became known as Kristallnacht.Read More

The size of the first graduating class of Sisters Academy of Baltimore, Lansdowne, is the same size of some Catholic families. Although the 10 girls are not all Catholic nor are they sisters, their connection over the past four years since the school opened has been like a family, more distinctively – a sisterhood.Read More

The Frederick church of a much-loved pastor who worked hard to make his faith community warm and welcoming now has a very appropriate symbol of his service: a decorative quilt emblazoned with the phrase, “a warm, welcoming and faith-filled man.”Read More

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court’s May 20 decision overturning Virginia’s ban on partial-birth abortion thwarts “the clear and common sense of our state’s citizens that a child who is almost entirely born should never be the victim of this brutal practice,” according to the executive director of the Virginia Catholic Conference.Read More

KOGELO, Kenya – Kenyans took to the streets Nov. 5 to celebrate President-elect Barack Obama’s election victory as the first African-American president of the United States.Read More

The actual origin of Memorial Day, once called Decoration Day, is unclear, except that at first it was most certainly a response to the terrible tragedy of the Civil War in which so many Americans on both sides died on and off the battlefields.Read More