WASHINGTON – Although two Catholic Relief Services workers in eastern Congo have been evacuated to neighboring Rwanda amid the escalating conflict, they are planning to return to another part of the country as soon as possible to help with relief efforts, said a CRS official.Read More

In Catholic Schools, uniforms are the trend, but on out-of-uniform days, students need to consider what fashionable items they can wear without disobeying the modesty rule.Read More

In mostly affluent Anne Arundel County, huge pockets of poverty persist. The divide formed the backdrop for an Oct. 27 town hall meeting at St. Bernadette, Severn, where a Johns Hopkins researcher presented stark contrasts between the haves and the have-nots.Read More

Three former Franciscan Sisters of Baltimore will honor their anniversaries of religious profession at a Jubilarian Mass July 29 at St. Rita in West Allis, Wis.Read More

WASHINGTON – The new options for dismissal at Mass are meant to help worshippers connect the liturgy with the missionary call of the rest of their lives, explained a liturgist with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington.Read More

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Baltimore Cardinal William H. Keeler July 12 and named Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien of the Archdiocese for the Military Services to succeed him. The changes were announced in Washington by Msgr. Martin Krebs, charge d'affaires of the Vatican nunciature. Archbishop O'Brien will be formally installed...Read More

While Catholics around the country will take respect life issues into the voting booth Nov. 4, many young people unable to cast are nonetheless looking for ways to change the United States.Read More

As the new girl at St. Rita School in Dundalk, Laura Klym timidly entered her first-grade classroom knowing most of her fellow classmates had established friendships from kindergarten and that finding kinship wouldn’t be an easy task.Read More