During last summer’s war between Hezbollah and Israel, Catholic Relief Services worked in partnership with our sister agency, Caritas Lebanon, to provide emergency assistance to more than 100,000 people around the country. And in the past year, our ties with Caritas Lebanon have only grown closer.Read More

SAN FRANCISCO – With a one-sentence order, the California Supreme Court March 1 denied a request to speed up consideration of a key question in the appeal over the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage.Read More

When Violesia Tull interviewed to participate in St. Ambrose Outreach Center’s new Certified Nursing Assistant training program, the 25-year-old Reservoir Hill mother knew the stakes were high.Read More

PHILADELPHIA – “Cry out full-throated and unsparingly,” says the first reading from Isaiah (58:1) for March 11 –- the date set for a Lenten prayer service at Philadelphia’s Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul.Read More

Once two nuns and an associate of the School Sisters of Notre Dame returned to Baltimore after witnessing the immigration and border issues at the Texas-Mexico boundary last month, they learned the U.S. Senate failed to produce an immigration-reform bill.Read More

SEVERNA PARK – Warren Tanghe, ordained a transitional deacon by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien Feb. 26, will become a priest in the Catholic Church June 25.Read More

The executive director of development for the Archdiocese of Baltimore will be leaving his post of 12 years in late July to focus full time on a consulting business he established several years ago to help parishes and dioceses throughout the United States.Read More

PHOENIX – Arizona’s Legislature will debate bills that question birthright citizenship, make hospitals check legal status of patients and require schools to keep tabs on students who are in the United States illegally.Read More