It’s a rare day when Kelly Aquilla cannot be found somewhere on the campus Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Essex.Read More

Personal trainers often advise their clients to take protein supplements as a way of fueling muscle growth. Yet, Julie Katz, clinical nutrition manager at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, warns that popular protein shakes and bars are largely a waste of money. They could even damage a person’s health if used in excess, she said.Read More

When I was in the seminary studying to be a Priest, way back in the 1960’s, I had a job one summer working in the library at Johns Hopkins University. My job was filing foreign dissertations.Read More

WASHINGTON – Projects aimed at rebuilding church infrastructure damaged by the recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile will receive nearly $1 million from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.Read More

WASHINGTON – Fifty years ago this May, the Food and Drug Administration gave its approval for the use of a combination of the hormones progesterone and estrogen that the pharmaceutical company Searle said would prevent pregnancy 99.7 percent of the time.Read More

NEW YORK – Lena Horne, the groundbreaking African-American singer-actress, received a Catholic funeral May 14 at a church on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.Read More

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien announced May 18 that St. Pius X Catholic School in Rodgers Forge will become the first school in the archdiocese to offer its students a Montessori education. The school will introduce a primary program for children ages 3-6 in the 2011-12 school year.Read More

ORLANDO, Fla. – Sal Versaggi is no stranger to battling disaster.Read More