As Filipino teachers arrive in Baltimore to educate city students, they usually bring little more with them than a few changes of clothes. This has inspired parishioners from St. Francis de Sales, Abingdon, and St. John the Evangelist, Hydes, to help the new residents furnish their new homes.Read More
WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Child soldiers have become the “new low-technology weapon” of today’s wars, said the retired Canadian general who led U.N. peacekeeping forces during the Rwandan genocide.Read More
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Knights of Columbus will continue to fight politically on issues important to the Catholic Church, such as abortion, marriage and embryonic stem-cell research, pledged Supreme Knight Carl Anderson. “One of our most important traditions throughout our 125-year history is that we do not, as an organization, become involved in partisan politics,”...Read More
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama announced the nomination of the Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook to be ambassador at large for international religious freedom.Read More
The Archdiocese of Baltimore will sponsor a conference on Catholic evangelization Aug. 25 at Church of the Resurrection in Ellicott City from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The cost is $25 per person.Read More
UNITED NATIONS – People must be equipped “with more than knowledge, ability, technical competence and tools” to truly combat “the deeper causes” of AIDS and provide “loving care” to those who have it, the Vatican’s U.N. nuncio said.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Greeting an international group of Scouts on the 100th anniversary of Scouting, Pope Benedict XVI prayed that the movement would continue to promote “human, spiritual and civil formation in every country of the world.”Read More
WASHINGTON – Across the faith spectrum this year, from the Sojourners to the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptists, prayer, education and advocacy are being taken up for the cause of immigration reform.Read More
Marge Steele’s two high-schoolers think they have too much homework – most students do. Mrs. Steele agrees with her sophomore and senior sons who attend Calvert Hall College High School, Baltimore. “Our biggest issue is that they play sports and the days they have games they get home very late,” said the mother of Ryan...Read More
NEW ORLEANS – The Catholic Review earned 10 Catholic Press Awards, including multiple first-place honors for an Independent Living special section and a third-place for Senior Writer George P. Matysek Jr. in the Individual Excellence category.Read More
While growing up at Immaculate Heart of Mary, Baynesville, Father Gilbert Seitz said he met some very inspiring priests including Cardinal James F. Stafford, Monsignor Robert Armstrong, Monsignor James McGovern and Monsignor Arthur Bastress.Read More