They started showing up outside St. Frances Academy at 6:15 a.m. on a frigid winter morning – and kept coming throughout the day, even as snow and ice turned the pavements and roads into virtual skating rinks.Read More
Players tend to take their lead from the coach. At least that’s the way Duane Verderaime sees it. “Every coach has a different approach,” said Verderaime, head field hockey coach for Mount de Sales Academy, Catonsville.Read More
WATERBURY, Conn. - During his 27 years building Broadway and movie sets, Ron Daisomont learned how to work with wood, metal and a variety of other materials. But with tight deadlines, patience was not his strong suit.Read More
WASHINGTON – As part of its continuing nationwide campaign to cut poverty in half by 2020, Catholic Charities USA is ramping up efforts to help people understand the ties between poverty and racism.Read More
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien celebrated Masses in English and Spanish at St. Michael parish in Fells Point May 22, marking the first time he has personally addressed the community since it was announced in February that the parish would move to Sacred Heart of Jesus in Highlandtown.Read More
Driving on a highway spotted with black ice near her home in Egg Harbor City, N.J., on Jan. 18, 2009, Susan Cossabone’s car was smashed into by an out-of-control Hamilton Township police car, nearly killing her.Read More
Although more than 1,300 people filled the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen May 14, only the occasional click and whir of a camera could be heard as Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien solemnly laid his hands on 14 men who knelt in front of him. Silently conferring the Holy Spirit, the archbishop ordained the white-robed figures...Read More