The Institute of Notre Dame, Baltimore, faced its toughest challenge of the season as the sun began to set on the IAAM C Conference field hockey championship game held on Nov. 4 at The Bryn Mawr School.Read More
WASHINGTON – Promoting Catholic social teaching to politicians at the White House and in Congress is like riding a teeter-totter: first up and then down. The direction depends on the issue being debated and the party in power.Read More
WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush will nominate Mary Ann Glendon, a U.S. law professor and president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, as the new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.Read More
WASHINGTON – When Fredron DeKarlos Blackmon was elected to lead the Knights of Peter Claver last September, it was a natural progression of his involvement as a professional lay Catholic.Read More
WASHINGTON – A recent series by The Associated Press illustrating the “widespread” extent of sexual abuse in the nation’s public schools and the failure of those in authority to stop it is a serious wake-up call for the nation say some officials.Read More
A new parish is forming in Western Maryland. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien announced June 12 that he has accepted the recommendation of the Mountain Maryland Regional Planning Commission to unite the five existing Cumberland-area parishes into one faith community with a single pastoral staff, effective July 1.Read More
When Sister Mary Josephine Fritz entered the postulancy program as a Good Shepherd Sister 70 years ago, she asked her superior if she could take Paul as her religious name. The young postulant had always dreamed of becoming a missionary like St. Paul and hoped to claim the saint as her special patron.Read More
JERUSALEM – The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, which coordinates Christian pilgrimage sites, will close the grotto of the Basilica of the Annunciation for four months for conservation work on the grotto’s rock.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Vatican City is the world’s smallest state, but it’s still considered a diplomatic nerve center, a place where the universal church meets global politics.Read More
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Bishop Thomas Savundaranayagam of the war-torn Diocese of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka has joined 300 Christian and Hindu hunger strikers urging action to protect civilians caught in the ethnic conflict.Read More