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SAN FRANCISCO – Jesuit Father Stephen A. Privett, president of the University of San Francisco, presented an honorary degree to Buddhist monks from Myanmar Dec. 14, saying the honor would keep their “struggle for democracy in the minds and hearts of those of us who enjoy the freedoms they are struggling to achieve.”

Severna Park resident Keith Chase is well aware he has an understanding and supportive wife. After all, he is an ordained deacon, and he has a demanding job with a Baltimore financial firm, four children under the age of 9 and a foreign-exchange student living with his family.

The traveling chalice at St. Francis de Sales, Abingdon, might not travel much farther than parishioners’ dining room tables, but it’s part of the road to vocations, a road paved with prayer.

SOBRADINHO, Brazil – Brazilian Bishop Luiz Cappio of Barra announced he was ending a 23-day hunger strike that protested a $3.7 billion project to divert the Sao Francisco River.

WARSAW, Poland – A Polish nun who thought up her best cake recipe in a dream has released a special DVD with tips on her culinary masterpieces.

Sister Mary Roy Weiss, S.S.N.D., knew early on she was being called to a vocation, but what she didn’t know was how she would end up using music in her work.

A funeral Mass was offered on Dec. 22 at Our Lady of Peace Residence in Scranton, Pa., for Sister M. Dorinda Dougherty, I.H.M. Sister Dorinda died on Dec. 19; she was 87.

Mother Seton School, Emmitsburg, is asking for help in locating alumni and memorabilia from all graduating classes, especially the class of 1958 who will celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2008.

VATICAN CITY – In a year-end meeting with the Roman Curia, Pope Benedict XVI looked back on 2007 and identified a crucial theme: the need to evangelize.