St. Frances Academy, Baltimore, rallies to fight being used as a drop point for the drug trade.Read More

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has defended its response to the problem of sexual abuse of children by priests, saying that the church had been “cleaning its own house” and that other religions and institutions were similarly tainted.Read More

PITTSBURGH – Leaders of the most powerful countries in the world, meeting for the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh Sept. 24-25, have huge economic issues to contend with.Read More

WASHINGTON – Competitive and territorial barriers that once kept Catholic agencies from working too closely together are slowly breaking down in communities across the country in favor of stronger collaboration to better serve clients in need, according to a national organization that promotes the benefits of cooperation among church-based ministries.Read More

In honor of the founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, St. John Baptist de La Salle, Calvert Hall College High School’s 1,250 student body gathered for a special Mass celebrated by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien May 15.Read More

WASHINGTON – Seventeen parents of children with disabilities gathered on Capitol Hill Sept. 15 to speak out against proposed government health care reform plans that they said could mean the difference between life and death for their children by limiting access to doctors and rationing health care.Read More

Katy Buck has lived in the shadows of tradition since she enrolled at Mount de Sales Academy three years ago.Read More

QUEBEC CITY – About 40 cardinals and bishops from the United States are among the nearly 500 Americans who have registered for the 49th International Eucharistic Congress in Quebec City June 15-22.Read More