WASHINGTON – In dioceses across the country this year, U.S. bishops and Catholic college and university presidents plan to discuss the specifics of how to best promote Catholic mission and identity on college campuses.Read More
OAK ISLAND, Texas – The first day Cathy Tran arrived back on Oak Island after Hurricane Ike forced her to leave, she slept on the floor of her home. All she had was a floor – no roof, no walls, no possessions.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI publicly called on the leaders of the world’s richest nations to keep their promises to increase development aid.Read More
TUCSON, Ariz. – Christina Taylor Green was memorialized for her love of sports, her excitement about her many interests, from politics to dance, and for affecting the whole country, as her father put it at her Jan. 13 funeral.Read More
The Beatitudes of St. Matthew’s Gospel are among the best known and favored verses in Sacred Scripture, appreciated over the centuries by all religious traditions. They form the preamble to the revered Sermon on the Mount. They offer a prayerful glimpse of heaven on earth, for they present us with a verbal portrait of the...Read More
For 32 years, Mark Amatucci has been doing what he loves, coaching basketball. But on May 30, he announced that he was stepping down as head varsity basketball coach at Calvert Hall College, Towson, effective June 1.Read More
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – During the past 40 years – from his first engagement as a Peace Corps volunteer to his three decades spanning the globe with Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services – Ken Hackett has witnessed and responded to human misery.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Israeli Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen, the chief rabbi of Haifa, asked Pope Benedict XVI and top Catholic leaders to continue learning to appreciate the Jewish people and to speak out to defend Israel.Read More
All the bar graphs on 10-year-old Anna Borkowski’s “Fitness Gram” are filled in solidly. And on the Pacer Test – the cardiovascular endurance portion of her school’s fitness test – the St. Ursula, Parkville, student broke the fifth-grade girls’ record. “She’s amazing,” said running coach and physical education teacher Kim Altenburger, noting that the record...Read More
This is not your father’s nursing home. In fact, it’s hard to realize that the Neighborhoods at St. Elizabeth really is a nursing home, since it totally lacks that institutional touch.Read More
Five years ago on graduation day, dumpsters at Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, were filled with lamps, Swiffer mops, unopened food, and kitchen supplies. But thanks to the Good Stuff Campaign developed by Loyola’s Center for Community Service and Justice, the college’s dumpsters remained nearly empty and the donation collection bins were full as undergraduates...Read More