After learning of 10-year-old St. Joseph, Fullerton, student Xavia Pirozzi’s heart transplant earlier this year, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hampden, fourth grader Kaylea Collavini decided to help. So she developed a fundraising idea for her fellow students to pay money to dress out of uniform for a day. Kaylea’s “Jeans Day” raised $637 for the Pirozzi...Read More

APARECIDA, Brazil – In calling for a “renewal and revitalization of faith” in Latin America and the Caribbean, Pope Benedict XVI warned against a revival of indigenous religions, said the church should work for justice but not become directly involved in politics, and criticized both Marxism and capitalism for their detachment from “the decisive reality...Read More

Colleen Guler of Catonsville was convinced by the Catholic Relief Services’ Jerusalem representative to lend her voice in support of U.S. involvement in the humanitarian crisis in the Holy Land, but she was admittedly an easy sell. As a social studies teacher at Catholic High School,Baltimore, Ms. Guler has involved herself in several worldwide causes...Read More

St. Gregory the Great, Baltimore, parishioner Alenthia Epps may live in sleepy Woodstock, but gun violence has preyed on a member of her family and she is applauding her parish's efforts to rid city streets of firepower. The Sandtown-Winchester parish will be giving $50 rewards for each workable gun turned in between 11 a.m. and...Read More