WESTON, Vt. – Natsumi Nagao was 14 when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II. She was injured so badly her skin hung off her body and had to be cut off. When her father found her several days later, the only way he recognized her was by...Read More

Gib Lease has noticed a definite pattern about who is most active in his church. No matter the ministry, he said, chances are pretty good that women outnumber men. More women teach religious education at his parish, he said. More girls are altar servers. And Mr. Lease is the only man in his Bible studies...Read More

ST. LOUIS – Educators nationwide continue to debate the best way to educate middle-school students – in a single school for kindergarten through eighth grade or a separate middle school.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Parish communities with a real sense of obligation to spread the Gospel are places where vocations to be missionary priests and religious thrive, said Pope Benedict XVI.Read More

Joe Molino, a parishioner of Prince of Peace in Edgewood, cannot explain why the friendship he and his wife, Anna, have shared with seven other couples across the archdiocese has lasted as long as it has.Read More

The Parish Partnership Program is not just about giving – it’s about getting, too. The Baltimore-Haiti Outreach Project pairs a parish in the Archdiocese of Baltimore with one in the Diocese of Gonaives, Haiti.Read More

With a new coach in 1987 alum Scott Ripley, the football program at The Cardinal Gibbons School, Baltimore, is ready for a change.Read More

MEXICO CITY – The Mexican bishops’ conference has written an open letter urging drug traffickers to use Lent as a time to give up violent turf wars and street battles that have left thousands of people dead.Read More