While Catholics around the country will take respect life issues into the voting booth Nov. 4, many young people unable to cast are nonetheless looking for ways to change the United States.Read More

Inspired by the movie “Invisible Children,” students from Maryvale Preparatory School in Brooklandville worked to increase awareness of the plight of children in Uganda by organizing a Social Awareness Week, April 22-27.Read More

Early in Matthew McClain’s life, medical professionals told his parents he would need to be placed in an institution because of severe difficulties related to his Down syndrome.Read More

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. – The Trappist monks at Our Lady of Mepkin Abbey in Moncks Corner are looking at a variety of new ways to support themselves as they phase out their popular egg production business.Read More

During the Year of St. Paul, which concludes June 28, 2009, pilgrims who visit St. Paul in Ellicott City may obtain a special plenary indulgence (remission before God of the temporal punishment of sin).Read More

NEW YORK – From the White House to the U.N. General Assembly hall and from ground zero to the Washington Nationals’ baseball stadium, Pope Benedict XVI preached a message of hope built on faith and a joint commitment to defending the dignity of the human person.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI denounced the continuing shortages of food around the world and said the causes included selfishness and “unbridled speculation.”Read More

NEW YORK – Pope Benedict XVI is not planning any new changes to church law in response to the clerical sexual abuse crisis, said Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman.Read More