GLEN BURNIE – After a week of classroom stress and social angst, many high schoolers use Friday nights to blow off steam at parties.Read More

PHILADELPHIA – A March 14 preliminary hearing for three priests, a former priest and a male former lay teacher was recessed until March 25 by presiding Common Pleas Judge Renee Cardwell Hughes.Read More

Kevin Wells could very well be a modern day Job. In his candid memoir, “Burst: A Story of God’s Grace When Life Falls Apart,” Wells details how he rose above challenges – infertility, adoption fraud and the murder of his uncle – with faith as his compass.Read More

Nicole Ortiz, Miss Maryland United States 2009, is not just another pretty face. She is a highly educated, intelligent young professional woman who confronted the demon of eating disorders, defeated it and is reaching out to help others in their time of potentially life-threatening trouble.Read More

Something quite remarkable happened recently: Cardinal William Wakefield Baum – emeritus Archbishop of Washington, emeritus Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, emeritus Major Penitentiary of the Catholic Church – passed the late Cardinal James Gibbons of Baltimore (who died March 24, 1921) to become the longest-serving American cardinal in history. It’s an astonishing record...Read More

She entered the convent in 1936, taking the train from her hometown of Rock Island, Ill., by way of Chicago. Sister Mary Alice Chineworth walked through the doors of the Oblate Sisters’ motherhouse at age 19 to begin her vocation, 15 years after deciding to dedicate her life to God. Yes, she knew she wanted...Read More

DUBLIN – While the Irish Catholic Church might not be as numerically strong as it was in the past, there is still a great vibrancy in Irish Catholicism, said Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin.Read More

TOWSON – Some 150 physicians, nurses, spiritual care/chaplains and hospital leaders gathered March 12 at St. Joseph Medical Center in an effort to better understand Catholic concerns about President Obama’s health care reform legislation, especially as it relates to freedom of conscience and government funding of abortion.Read More