When Pete Munsey and Jannifer Anderson-Munsey exchanged marriage vows last year, they considered themselves emotionally and financially secure in making that lifelong commitment to one another.Read More
A series of advertisements for the U.S. bishops’ campaign to strengthen marriage have been successful in the numbers of people they have reached and the awards they have garnered from professional advertising organizations, Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., said Nov. 14.Read More
WASHINGTON – According to figures supplied by Free Press, the media-reform think tank and lobby group in Washington, the federal government spends about $1.35 per person per year on public media.Read More
When the unthinkable happens, people of faith are called to respond. In the Archdiocese of Baltimore, that response has proven to be swift and compassionate in the wake of three recent tragedies, with individuals offering prayers, schools activating crisis management plans and parishes reaching out to families.Read More
Ken Hackett’s daughter, Jenny, was born in the Philippines, and his son, Michael, in Kenya. Hackett and his wife, Joan, however, raised their family in the Archdiocese of Baltimore and sent their children to St. Louis School in Clarksville and then Mount de Sales Academy and Loyola Blakefield, respectively.Read More
LOS ANGELES – The Archdiocese of Los Angeles officially launched an initiative to renew the local church with the release of a new pastoral letter on stewardship Sept. 8.Read More
BEL AIR – On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold approached Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. and saw Rachel Scott sitting in some nearby grass with a friend.Read More
WASHINGTON – On any given night Sister Betty Adams knows that usually she will see five or six women in the shelter she oversees for women fleeing domestic violence in Sierra Vista, Ariz., 80 miles southeast of Tucson.Read More
Maryvale Preparatory School, Brooklandville’s head soccer coach, Billy Reinhardt, focuses on one thing to fuel the Lions’ success and that’s fitness. “When you’re physically fit, you think clearly and play clearly, especially under pressure,” said Reinhardt, who is entering his sixth season with the outdoor soccer team. The Lions compete in the IAAM B Conference...Read More
Two years ago, Emily Moesner didn’t know what to expect as she headed to Kansas City, Mo. For the National Catholic Youth Conference. By the end of the first night there, she was transformed.Read More
When Patricia Fetcho of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, Woodstock, called her daughter’s mobile phone Oct. 17, 2007, with slurred speech, she wasn’t sure what was going on.Read More