DUBUQUE, Iowa – The “green” efforts of students, teachers and staff at Resurrection Elementary School in Dubuque have paid off. It is the first parochial school to receive the Green Vision Education Award from the Dubuque Metropolitan Area Solid Waste Agency. It was honored for a recycling program. During ceremonies Jan. 29 in the gym,...Read More

A funeral Mass was offered Jan. 6 at St. Francis of Assisi in Nanticoke, Penn., for Father James Schappert, S.S.J.Read More

PITTSBURGH – Charles Dougherty, president of Duquesne University, said politicians should not be speakers at events such as commencement. He made the announcement in a recent letter to the school’s board of directors and other university leaders. “Even if such a speaker steers clear of political content, it makes a political statement that we provided...Read More

Eric Thompson, a fourth grader at St. John the Evangelist School, Severna Park, won the school-level competition of the 19th annual National Geographic Bee Jan. 5 and a chance to win a $25,000 college scholarship. Students in grades 4-8 answered oral questions about geography in the first round. The runner up was Grant Murray, a...Read More

With stomachs rumbling as a wedding rehearsal proceeds, thoughts of the forthcoming meal may cause even the most alert participants to lose focus of their instructions. It’s traditionally up to the family of the groom to feed members of the wedding party after they have absorbed their responsibilities for the upcoming nuptials. Etiquette doesn’t dictate...Read More

On Jan. 1 the Internal Revenue Service made it mandatory that all charitable donations come with a paper trail to claim them on next year’s tax return, but pastors at some Baltimore area Catholic churches have seen little change in parishioners’ tithing practices. “The new rules haven’t been in place long enough for us to...Read More

VATICAN CITY – Signaling continued improvement in Vatican-Vietnamese relations, Pope Benedict XVI hosted the first ever visit of a prime minister from Vietnam’s communist government. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and a nine-member government delegation, including the head of the government Commission for Religious Affairs, arrived at the Vatican Jan. 25. The Vatican said the...Read More

The Greek Chi explanation is ridiculous. Are we speaking Greek here in the US? Keep the Christ in Christmas!Read More