PHILADELPHIA – Pennsylvania state Sen. Anthony H. Williams invokes the language of the civil rights movement and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. when arguing for school choice.Read More

Karen and Phil Ruberry love the stories that go along with the nearly 300 antique lamps in their collection. For five years they have found their treasures through dealers, collectors’ clubs, e-Bay, trade publications, antique shows and auctions, and antique-ing on weekends. They own unusual kerosene lamps, early whale oil lamps, pewter lamps, miniature oil...Read More

VATICAN CITY – With pro-democracy movements moving across North Africa and the Middle East, the situation in Libya worries the Vatican because of the loss of human lives, “the targeting of civilians and of peaceful protesters, and the indiscriminate use of force,” a Vatican representative told the U.N. Human Rights Council.Read More

Dennis M. Murphy gestured toward bare shelves in the walk-in refrigerator at Our Daily Bread in Baltimore.Read More

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – A devastating midday earthquake Feb. 22 caused at least 75 deaths, seriously damaged the Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament and put the Diocese of Christchurch “out of action.”Read More

Church of the Nativity, Timonium, parishioner Benilde Sansone still maintains two passions as she prepares to turn 100 – faith and food.Read More

DUBLIN – Repenting for the crimes of priestly sex abuse does not mean that the Irish Catholic Church can return to business as usual, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin told abuse survivors during a Feb. 20 prayer service joined by an American cardinal.Read More

Beginning around 1840 and until 1860, the “Underground Railroad” operated to liberate slaves from enslavement in the South to freedom in the North. The conductors of the railroad were former slaves and white abolitionists. The most famous conductor was Harriet Tubman, who escaped from slavery in 1849. After obtaining her freedom, she returned to the...Read More