On the same day Maryland lawmakers concluded a three-week special legislative session to address the state’s budget deficit Nov. 19, the leader of the Maryland Catholic Conference praised lawmakers for making the poor a priority in their planning.Read More
We read with great interest your article, “On the go in Govans,” in the Nov. 8 edition of The Catholic Review. This innovative partnership between St. Mary of the Assumption School and Loyola College is a win-win situation for both schools.Read More
Up until the 21st Century, global warming was a cyclic thing resulting mostly from cosmic changes out of human control. There was a time for warming and a time for cooling. Now, according to Tony Magliano’s sources (CR, Nov 15), all of a sudden we are in a warming spiral that humans have caused and...Read More
The Calvert Hall College High School, Towson, varsity water polo team is the Eastern Prep School champion for 2007. The Cardinals won all three of their matches in a field of eight teams on Nov. 3-4 at Lawrenceville Prep in New Jersey to win the Prep School Championship for the fourth time in five years.Read More
The Calvert Hall College High School Cardinals plowed through two big events last week, capturing the MIAA A Conference cross country title and then, on three days of rest, moved on to comfortably walk away with the state private schools title.Read More
Catholic Charities USA has recently learned of several types of fraudulent email messages that have misappropriated the name of Catholic Charities USA and its affiliates to extract money or personal information from unsuspecting recipients.Read More
BALTIMORE – The U.S. bishops Nov. 13 elected Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago as their president and Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., as their vice president. Using an electronic voting system, the bishops voted on the second day of their Nov. 12-15 fall general meeting in Baltimore.Read More
Increasing violence in Somalia’s capital has trapped residents as Catholic and other aid agencies call for an end to the humanitarian catastrophe.Read More
The Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson, Blazers placed first in the IAAM A Conference cross country championships on Oct. 31 at Oregon Ridge Park, Hunt Valley.Read More
ZALINGEI, Sudan – The already perilous situation in Darfur will continue to worsen if stalled peace talks fully collapse, said a top U.N. official for the western region of Sudan. U.N. envoy Jan Eliasson, in a radio interview with the British Broadcasting Corp., expressed optimism Nov. 5 that peace talks might eventually succeed.Read More