Dr. Norman Dy, a program director of the St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, Internal Medicine Residency who has his own private practice, uncovered the truth about medical myths in a recent interview.Read More

WASHINGTON - The Senate’s inability to overcome a threatened filibuster Dec. 18 scuttled passage of the DREAM Act, prompting immigrant advocates to pledge to push forward on immigration reform next year with a new Congress and fight for what one immigrant leader termed the “respect we deserve.”Read More

WASHINGTON – A report sent to the U.S. bishops by their National Review Board and Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People said the safe environment education programs for children in dioceses across the nation are “a major accomplishment and one that must continually be maintained and reinforced.” It proposed criteria for evaluating...Read More

A Baltimore New Year’s Eve tradition will be renewed at historic St.Ignatius Church, Calvert and Madison Streets, when the 18th Annual Interfaith Service will be held Dec. 31 at 8 p.m. Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths will be represented during the hour-long prayer service.Read More

BEIJING (CNS) -- As Chinese Catholic seminaries and religious communities work to train a new generation of priests and nuns, many religious leaders say their greatest need is for people to learn religious formation -- how to accompany a candidate in religious life. "We still have a great need for formation work," said Auxiliary Bishop...Read More

WASHINGTON – A Sister of St. Joseph who was Iona College’s chief financial officer has been charged by federal prosecutors with embezzling $800,000 from the Christian Brothers-run school over a decade.Read More

A deacon’s son and a graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School, Baltimore, will move closer to their goal of priesthood on May 12 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore, when they are ordained transitional deacons. John Rapisarda, 29, and Ernest Cibelli, 25, will be...Read More

In just six years, Hannah Schmidt became one of the Baltimore area’s best young volleyball players.Read More