ST. PAUL, Minn. – While K.J. McDonald supported his party as a delegate at the Republican National Convention, his four sisters protested the war outside the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, where the convention was held.

ST. PAUL, Minn. – While K.J. McDonald supported his party as a delegate at the Republican National Convention, his four sisters protested the war outside the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, where the convention was held.
WASHINGTON – Catholic colleges can’t afford to steer away from fundraising, according to a new report by a credit ratings service.

LIBERTYTOWN – When Monsignor John Dietzenbach pushed open the doors of the new St. Peter the Apostle Church in Libertytown during a Sept. 7 dedication liturgy, more than 900 parishioners looked on in stunned silence.

WALKERSVILLE – Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien lifted a pair of gigantic scissors and playfully gave them a few quick snips in the air before cutting a bright red ribbon that officially marked the opening of a new $2.8 million parish center at St. Timothy in Walkersville Sept. 7.
VATICAN CITY – Choosing men and women from every part of the world and from a wide variety of professional spheres, Pope Benedict XVI nominated 32 voting members, 41 experts and 37 observers for the upcoming world Synod of Bishops.
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – The Catholic Church in Nicaragua must educate the country’s Catholic majority to recognize that politics is not about power, but about serving the common good, Pope Benedict XVI said.

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Chaldean Catholic refugees who flee Iraq face an uncertain status in Lebanon and often seek help from the Catholic Church.

WASHINGTON – Upholding its long-standing view that life begins at conception, the Republican Party decried the practice of abortion and repeated its call for a human life amendment to the U.S. Constitution in its 2008 political platform.
WASHINGTON – A dialogue group made up of Catholics and Orthodox Jews has issued a statement defending the “special standing” of marriage between a man and a woman against efforts to classify same-sex unions as marriages.

John and Gat Meredith planned on marking the first anniversary of their daughter’s death quietly.

There was a time when nearly every student’s eyes drifted to the classroom clock as they began to count the seconds to the final school bell of the day.
Sleek, canoe-like boats adorned with intricately carved dragon heads and tails will slice through the waters of the Inner Harbor in a spectacle dating to ancient China.
