Maria Jones was a fourth-grader at St. Mary School in Hagerstown when she saw a commercial for a neonatology hospital. Images of women helping newborn babies flashed on the screen and seared themselves into her heart.Read More
Saying she is “excited to be part of such a vibrant parish and school,” Mary Jo Warthen is looking forward to her first year as principal of St. Mark School in Catonsville.Read More
VATICAN CITY – New evangelization means finding the most effective ways to proclaim the Gospel to a world that is either too distracted or too blind to see the divine, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More
It’s true that recycling isn’t new, but for student council officers at Immaculate Heart of Mary School the idea of it has been recycled into a new passion – and one they want to leave behind.Read More
TAYBEH, West Bank – On one night of their 31-mile trek through the West Bank, a group of 25 hikers was welcomed into a village during a wedding celebration. The next night they stayed in the modest homes of Palestinian families.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Back-to-back speeches at a Vatican AIDS conference illustrated that condoms in AIDS prevention remains a sensitive issue for both church officials and international health experts.Read More
After reading “Catholics to tune in for inauguration” (CR, Jan. 15), I was terribly disappointed to see the support and celebration from area Catholic schools. Some are even closing for the momentous occasion. I can’t believe with all the hoopla for a presidential candidate who won the election and proudly supports abortion on demand, embryonic...Read More
Like many children in her Highlandtown community, Tricia Dabrowski began playing soccer at age 2. The sport became part of who the Our Lady of Pompei parishioner was.Read More
Tony Guy traveled all over the world thanks to basketball, but the Loyola Blakefield graduate knows it would not have been possible without the Baltimore Catholic League.Read More
WASHINGTON – Declaring that every life is “a gift from our Creator that is sacred, unique and worthy of protection,” President George W. Bush proclaimed Jan. 18, the Sunday before the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, as National Sanctity of Human Life Day.Read More
For many suburban children and teenagers, there is one Baltimore. It’s the one with the Inner Harbor, the National Aquarium and Oriole Park at Camden Yards.Read More