WASHINGTON – The Catholic Campaign for Human Development suspended funding a nationwide community organizing group after it was disclosed June 2 that nearly $1 million had been embezzled.Read More

Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services President Ken Hackett formally thanked Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien and St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore for nearly $18,000 in recent contributions to fund aid for people in impoverished parts of the world.Read More

Hope has become a buzzword in 2008. The Archdiocese of Baltimore sent a clarion call, however, that it is not a passing phrase at its annual Institute for catechists.Read More

HAGERSTOWN – As 15-year-old Charlotte Riggs prepared to rehearse a show tune in a room attached to Thomas McFarland’s classroom, Mr. McFarland stopped what he was doing and crept beside the half-open door.Read More

Amid the business attire, networking and note-taking that marked the Catholic Medical Association’s 77th annual Educational Conference, Patrick Tomeny stood out.Read More

WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop Michael W. Warfel of Juneau, Alaska, as the bishop of Great Falls-Billings, Mont.Read More

What profit a man if he gains on Wall St., but suffers the loss of his soul? Many eyes were on the bail-out of our financial infrastructure, perhaps an appropriate concern for normalcy in a modern material world. However, the true long-term investor may realize that his portfolio should include stocks that appreciate in the...Read More

WASHINGTON – It may only continue for a matter of months, but an effective moratorium on executions has spread across the United States while the Supreme Court considers whether the most commonly used combination of drugs for lethal injections constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.Read More