Norman Beard lost contact with music after he enlisted in the Army, but he still refers to his days in the Holy Cross Boys Band of South Baltimore as some of the best years of his early life. When the band formed in 1933, Mr. Beard was a fifth-grader interested in music, but “no one...Read More

Magic-mania erupted as the buzzer sounded on Jan. 25 at the Towson Center, as the Mercy High School Magic outscored the Institute of Notre Dame 44-28 to take a 26-16 lead in this 42-year-old tradition called “The Game.”Read More

VATICAN CITY – One of the most urgent and critical social problems afflicting the world today is the “shameful tragedy that one-fifth of humanity still goes hungry,” Pope Benedict XVI told members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.Read More

SANTIAGO, Chile – Chilean Catholic bishops are working to resolve a situation in which an imprisoned Mapuche woman, convicted of arson under the country’s anti-terrorist legislation, is being force-fed intravenously after more than 100 days on a hunger strike.Read More

WASHINGTON – The current political environment provides a defining moment for the interplay of Catholic social teachings on issues Congress is facing, according to a panel of Washington-area academics in a symposium organized by the Life Cycle Institute of The Catholic University of America.Read More

Pope Benedict XVI won’t be drawn into American politics when he comes to the U.S. in April in the middle of a heated presidential race. That’s what the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, told an Italian Catholic magazine, and I’m glad to hear it.Read More

The Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association’s annual awards convention April 23-24 at Westin BWI Hotel in Linthicum highlighted The Catholic Review’s excellence.Read More

ROME – Spanish-born Father Adolfo Nicolas, the newly elected superior general of the Jesuits, called on the more than 19,000 members of his order to strengthen their service to the poor and those excluded from the benefits of economic globalization.Read More