Declaring four 19th-century women religious saints, Pope Francis said they are models for all Christians.Read More

Students at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg learned first-hand about hunger and social justice.Read More

As a child, Jo Ann Thomas watched her grandmother cook for the retired Josephite priests and brothers in residence at St. Joseph’s Manor in Roland Park. Those memories of growing up around the Josephites (her mother served them as a nurse) surround Thomas when she cooks with commercial-sized pots and pans in the kitchen of...Read More

For many years, James Ulmer has given something up for Lent. Whether it was candy, soda, alcohol or chocolate, the 56-year-old parishioner of St. Katharine Drexel in Frederick always made it through the traditional 40-day penitential season without reneging on his sacrificial pledges – although he admitted that going without chocolate “almost killed” him.Read More

Community service (from small projects to those with a global impact) is encouraged and embraced in Catholic schools.Read More

During his first Eagle of the Cross ceremony June 6, Baltimore's new archbishop told students they are an inspiration for others.Read More

Mount St. Mary’s was packed this weekend with more than 1,300 high school students attending Mount 2000, a retreat focused on the Eucharist and led by the university’s seminarians.Read More

Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff “Jane Roe” in the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion virtually on demand, died Feb. 18 at an assisted-living facility in Katy. She was 69.Read More