Jeannette Hudak said she was “scared to death” last year about the impending marriage of her now 35-year-old daughter Maria, who had always lived at home under the watchful eye of five older brothers and her parents.Read More

As Catholic Charities’ volunteers and supporters were treated to a breakfast in their honor at the organization’s new Our Daily Bread building in Baltimore Dec. 12, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien called their labors impressive, efficient and effective.Read More

BOSTON – Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley opened the bicentennial year of the Archdiocese of Boston by urging disillusioned Catholics to “come home” to the faith. “Noah’s ark may have sprung a leak, but it is not sinking, and Christ is the captain. To our brothers and sisters in the life rafts, I say, ‘We...Read More

LOS ANGELES – In letters to all the presidential candidates sent Dec. 12, Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony urged them to “show leadership on the issue of immigration” and to work to find a “humane and comprehensive solution to our broken immigration system.”Read More

As Alizata Sorgho stepped off a bus filled with parishioners from two Baltimore City Catholic parishes Dec. 11 and into a park where many city homeless reside, she mustered the courage to interact with the urban destitute.Read More

The Caring Ministry at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Crofton, just celebrated its fifth anniversary, and five is the magic number for the group of volunteers.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Teaching young people the skills they need to support their future families and the moral values to inspire them to work for the common good is essential in the fight against violence and despair, Pope Benedict XVI told seven new ambassadors to the Vatican.Read More

VERNONIA, Ore. – Judy Budge was happy to have her grandchildren living with her at her home in Vernonia, a remote logging town in Oregon’s Coast Range.Read More