As basketball teams are wrapping up their seasons and the high school academic year is more than half over, it could only mean one thing: The Mount St. Joseph, Irvington, baseball season is finally underway.
As basketball teams are wrapping up their seasons and the high school academic year is more than half over, it could only mean one thing: The Mount St. Joseph, Irvington, baseball season is finally underway.

As the Calvert Hall College High School band played “Take me Out to the Ballgame,” standing behind the soon-to-be-dedicated pitcher’s mound, the student-body entered the $1.8 million Carlo Crispino Baseball Stadium and gathered behind the band. It was a proud day for the Calvert Hall community as April 6 marked the official opening of this brand new, state-of-the-art baseball field.
As the United States prepares for its first papal visit in nine years, members of the Archdiocese of Baltimore are busy planning their own involvement for Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to Washington, D.C., and New York April 15-20.
Alexandra Krall, a student at School of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland, won first place in the annual prayer card contest.
CAMDEN, N.J. – Bishop Joseph A. Galante of Camden announced a reconfiguration plan April 3 that will reduce the number of parishes in the diocese from the current 124 to 66 over the next two years.
MEXICO CITY – Several Mexican bishops denied that the Catholic Church accepts donations from drug lords after the president of the Mexican bishops’ conference said drug traffickers have been “very generous” to the church.

VATICAN CITY – In the wake of the murder of a Syrian Orthodox priest in Iraq, Pope Benedict XVI urged Iraqis to embrace peace in their efforts to build “a just and tolerant society.”

A bustling section of downtown Baltimore is about to get a quiet spot for reflection and meditation when Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien breaks ground April 11 for the long-awaited Pope John Paul II Prayer Garden.
Carrying a bucket of clay and a modeling stand, Nate Risteen arrived on the doorsteps of Cardinal William H. Keeler’s residence in downtown Baltimore with one goal in mind: scrutinize the cardinal’s physical characteristics.

LONDON – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has spoken of his “passionate” conviction that religious faith can transform humanity for the better.

VATICAN CITY – It’s being called the Sistine Chapel of calligraphy. The Saint John’s Bible will be the first handwritten and illuminated Bible penned with ancient methods since the invention of the printing press, according to its creators.
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s addition of two meetings with Jews in the United States underlined the pope’s continuing interest in improving Catholic-Jewish relations.
