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One objective seniors Mara Wild and Melanie Rae want to carry through before they graduate from the Institute of Notre Dame, Baltimore, is to upgrade the 11-year-old black onstage traveling curtains in the school auditorium. They have sewn holes in the curtains so many times, they were told to stop because repairs were obvious.

Network 2000, a Maryland organization promoting the advancement of women in business, awarded grants to two local programs last month during its annual Women of Excellence luncheon.

DHAKA, Bangladesh – After a day of trudging through the debris of wrecked homes handing out relief coupons to survivors of the recent cyclone, the president of the Bangladesh Catholic Students’ Movement was tired.

Sean Ballard of Baldwin wants to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas this year and avoid the commercialism that has dampened her spirits during past holiday seasons.

We sing “Amazing Grace,” but do we stop to reflect on just how amazing grace really is – and how it’s present in our lives?

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI told Baptist and Catholic representatives he hoped conversations between the two denominations “will bear abundant fruit for the progress of dialogue and the increase of understanding and cooperation.”

The Sisters of the Most Precious Blood in O’Fallon, Missouri, faced an all-too-familiar challenge for religious communities in the early 1990s. While the number of sisters had shrunk dramatically from decades past, the community still maintained an enormous 200,000-square-foot motherhouse with 12 buildings resting on 42 acres of property at St. Mary’s Institute.