Eight Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore will welcome new leaders this fall. The four new principals, two new presidents one interim principal and one interim president include some with deep local roots and others with experience outside the archdiocese.Read More

WASHINGTON – A spate of public appearances by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who until February was pastor of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, is drawing unprecedented attention to the black church as a whole, in addition to the specific congregation where Sen. Barack Obama is a member.Read More

She has been the president and principal of Baltimore’s Mercy High School for 31 years, and may have held such a position longer than anyone else in Catholic secondary education. But, Sister Carol Wheeler, R.S.M., somehow retains the creative energy, freshness and vision she had when she came to the newly opened Mercy as a...Read More

PITTSBURGH - An “outpouring of prayer” has come “from every corner of southwestern Pennsylvania” for the victims of a gunman who shot up a suburban Pittsburgh fitness center Aug. 4, said Bishop David A. Zubik.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI expressed his sadness at the death of former Philippine President Corazon Aquino and praised her commitment to freedom and justice for Filipinos.Read More

Cardinal William H. Keeler and Baltimore’s active and retired auxiliary bishops, said they were deeply moved by Pope Benedict XVI’s April 15-20 visit to the United States – especially by the warm way the Holy Father was received.Read More

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Thanking Americans for their hospitality, Pope Benedict XVI departed the United States amid a cheering crowd of 4,000 people who had come to see him off.Read More

WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI described migration as “a social phenomenon of epoch-making proportions” in his social encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”).Read More