WORCESTER, Mass. – Assumption College officials announced that they will no longer require prospective students to provide SAT or ACT standardized scores when applying to the 105-year-old Worcester college founded by the Assumptionists.Read More

VITORIA, Spain – Catholic bishops from Spain’s Basque region have apologized for keeping quiet about the killing of priests by right-wing forces during the Spanish Civil War.Read More

WASHINGTON – Whenever a nation’s leader dies in office, conspiracy theories abound as to what – or who – caused the death.Read More

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Christian and Muslim leaders condemned two bomb blasts in Jakarta as “uncivilized acts” and urged the police to immediately apprehend the culprits.Read More

I would question the value of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops spending time to revisit their 2004 policy to not give a public platform to anyone opposed to church teachings at their upcoming November meeting in Baltimore. Some institutions will likely it ignore it anyway.Read More

A previously announced plan that would have resulted in The Cardinal Gibbons School and The Seton Keough High School sharing a president has been “placed on hold.”Read More

Christ famously went to the shore to call St. Peter and others to be his disciples. A Western Maryland parish named in the famous fisherman’s honor has been doing the same thing at Deep Creek Lake for decades even though it had no home to call its own.Read More

A funeral Mass for Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Mary Mark Carnes, a former principal of St. Rita School in Dundalk, was offered June 30 at St. Rita. Sister Mary Mark died June 26; she was 82.Read More