According to Anthony Macri, The John Carroll School, Bel Air, boys’ assistant basketball coach, the Patriots recently played host to 25 collegiate basketball coaches and staff during the first week of what is known as the “Open Period.” Sept. 9 marked the first date in the NCAA’s recruitment calendar that Division I schools have an...Read More

As the Archdiocese of Baltimore plans to implement recommendations made by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien’s Blue Ribbon Committee for Catholic Schools, some have already taken shape.Read More

HUNTINGTON, Utah –The wrenching search for six lost miners was over, leaving only funerals, a public memorial service and a private committal service for the three Catholic miners attended by family members. A funeral Mass for Luis Hernandez and Juan Carlos Payan was celebrated Sept. 6 at Mission San Rafael in Huntington. Concelebrated by Father...Read More

Mariah Gangapersad, Ruben Torres and Chris Ellis had never set foot on a college campus until they were freshmen at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Baltimore. Three years later, they are close to actually attending one.Read More

HEILIGENKREUZ, Austria – In a visit to one of the world’s oldest monasteries, Pope Benedict XVI underlined the power of prayer as a form of “service to the world.” The pope, winding up a three-day visit to Austria Sept. 9, paid a call on the Cistercian Abbey of the Holy Cross, the oldest continuously active...Read More

NEW YORK – New York City has one statistic in particular that it can’t be proud of and needs to change, according to local religious leaders: 41 percent of pregnancies in the city end in abortion, almost double the national rate.Read More

As Monsignor Thomas Kujovsky witnessed nearly 2,000 well-wishers pour into the Baltimore Convention Center Sept. 6 to pay tribute to his high school classmate – Cardinal William H. Keeler – his observation about the retiring 14th Archbishop of Baltimore is beloved was confirmed. “This sort of says it all,” said the retired Monsignor Kujovsky, who...Read More

VATICAN CITY – Jesus was a refugee - a fact that should be remembered as societies deal with modern issues of emigration and immigration, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More