YAMAGATA, Japan – Kazuhiro Kikuchi, his wife, Kazuki, and two of their three children were staying at a large sports center-turned-evacuation center about 40 miles north of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, where officials were struggling to contain a potential nuclear disaster.Read More

In order to better appreciate the devotion and dedication of black Catholics to the church, it is necessary to be aware of the political, social and religious environment which people of color had to endure and overcome.Read More

Nicole Ortiz, Miss Maryland United States 2009, is not just another pretty face. She is a highly educated, intelligent young professional woman who confronted the demon of eating disorders, defeated it and is reaching out to help others in their time of potentially life-threatening trouble.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Anticipating the Dec. 1 commemoration of World AIDS Day, the president of Caritas Internationalis urged greater efforts from governments and from medical experts in caring for children with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.Read More

TOKYO – As the magnitude of the disaster in Japan unfolded, religious and humanitarian aid organizations stepped up efforts to provide assistance.Read More

Monsignor Francis X. Zorbach, a popular longtime pastor of St. Philip Neri in Linthicum Heights who was highly regarded for his support of Catholic education, died Nov. 8. He was 81.Read More

During a March 9 Ash Wednesday liturgy at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien called on Catholics to affirm traditional marriage by participating in a special day of prayer and fasting March 18. The Maryland House of Delegates is preparing to...Read More

Children in the impoverished Diocese of Gonaives, Haiti, are one step closer to getting a new secondary school thanks to parishioners throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore.Read More