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Loyola College in Maryland’s community is coming to terms with the death of Kelly Murray, associate professor of pastoral counseling, and her 7-year-old daughter, Sloane.

Raising their hands high above their heads and gently swaying to the beat of a Christian rock band from California, hundreds of Filipino Catholics seemed lost in prayer at the Baltimore Convention Center June 26. They were calling down the power of the Holy Spirit and hoping to receive inspiration to renew their faith.

ROME – Closing the year of St. Paul, Pope Benedict XVI announced that tests done on the presumed tomb of the Apostle revealed the presence of bone fragments from a human who lived between the first and second century.

Father Isaac Karoor laughed when asked what he thought about his upcoming retirement. He called to mind a favorite saying from his native India: “The best time to get out of the choir is when you can still sing.”

PHILADELPHIA – The church’s great communications challenge today is to “keep the interest of people who have so many places to turn,” Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., told the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management.

Sister Joan Minella likes to joke that as a teacher at St. Patrick School in Mount Savage in the early 1960s, she taught half the population of the tiny town.

PHILADELPHIA – When Iranian-born actress Shohreh Aghdashloo was asked by co-director Cyrus Nowrasteh to consider the lead role in the movie “The Stoning of Soraya M.,” her immediate reaction was, “I’ve been waiting for this for 20 years.”

Yolanda Brooks-Summerville sat on her porch June 25 and sobbed. Just the thought of walking the stairs of her Park Heights Avenue row house overwhelmed her. She has brutal knee pain and the railing that lines her stairwell wobbled as she applied pressure.