UNITED NATIONS – The best and cheapest way to prepare Africa for a better future is to educate all its youths, especially girls and young women, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Vatican nuncio to the United Nations, said April 10. Addressing the 40th session of the U.N. Commission on Population and Development, the archbishop said that according...Read More
DUBLIN, Ireland – The 18 Irish religious orders implicated in decades of abuse of thousands of children in their care have agreed to increase their contribution to the compensation fund for victims.Read More
Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore has named John Kogler its vice president of operations. He will have the primary responsibility of overseeing the daily operations in the school and on the 33-acre campus.Read More
According to athletic director Mary Ella Marion, Mercy High School, Baltimore, is always looking to add a new sport to their athletic program. So with 20-plus students showing an interest in golf last fall, Marion took the ball and ran with it, now adding a 10th sport to their program.Read More
DUBLIN, Ireland – Representatives of the 18 religious orders implicated in the physical and sexual abuse of children in their care were scheduled to meet Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen June 3 to discuss ways to provide additional support and assistance to abuse survivors.Read More
For the first 12 years of his life, Monsignor John J. Auer grew up in the parish of St. Joseph’s Passionist Monastery Church, Irvington. His family then moved to St. William of York, Baltimore, until the time he was ordained. Besides serving throughout Maryland for his entire career, Monsignor Auer, celebrating 50 years in the...Read More
WASHINGTON - Past studies have shown that those who attend religious services at least weekly tend to live longer and healthier lives. Now, new research indicates that frequent churchgoers also face those additional years with more optimism and greater social support than other people.Read More
VATICAN CITY – As scholars and theologians continue to debate the heresy trial of Galileo Galilei, a Vatican official said that a failure to understand the boundaries between faith and science was at the heart of the church's condemnation of his ideas.Read More
As St. Mary’s School in Hagerstown begins its search for a permanent principal, Patricia McDermott said she feels “blessed” to lead the school as interim principal for the coming school year.Read More
Ten members of a formerly Episcopal order of nuns made history Nov. 1 when Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien received their religious community into the Catholic Church as a diocesan priory.Read More
At the conclusion of Mass May 23, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien looked out into the first few pews of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Homeland, and observed 46 clergy and religious celebrating milestone jubilees.Read More