CHICAGO – Elvira Sosa never saw herself as a military mother. No one in her family, or her husband Pedro’s family, had ever served in uniform.Read More

When Virginia “Ginny” Dauses arrived at St. Mary’s High School in Annapolis several years ago as campus minister, 15 of the school’s young people attended the annual March for Life in Washington.Read More

WASHINGTON – Although some had predicted that Pope Benedict XVI’s April 15-20 visit to the United States would take a decidedly political turn in a presidential election year, the pope’s major speeches avoided specific references to most domestic and international issues while defending the right of church leaders to speak out on public policy matters.Read More

A summer archeological dig near St. Joseph in Cockeysville unearthed brown broken bottles and tea cups, coins, a beer token, buttons and children’s toys – clues into the daily life of Irish immigrants who manned area limestone quarries and worshipped at St. Joseph beginning in the mid-19th century.Read More