NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Religious leaders must speak out “loud and clear” against those who try to use sacred texts such as the Quran or the Bible to justify violence or human rights violations, the Vatican’s nuncio to the United Nations said in a lecture at the University of Notre Dame.Read More

Sophomore Ashley Davis and junior Beth Amann spent their school day Nov. 16 in silence. Winter scarves wrapped around their necks, they wrote periodically on dry erase boards to communicate. The girls were “saving their voices.”Read More

The annual Native American Day was the culminating activity to a unit that focused on American Indians at Trinity School, Ellicott City, Nov. 19. Clad in traditional Indian dress with tribal symbols painted on their faces, two kindergarten classes sang songs around a teepee on the school’s spacious campus and played tom-toms they handcrafted.Read More

You haven’t started your Christmas cards – the ones you didn’t finish last year – the latest hot toy is sold out, and the kids want you to make the traditional cookies. You just don’t have the time, and none of it feels right anyway since you lost your mother this year.Read More

Some kids play sports, others are in the marching band and then there are those like Calvert Hall College High School, Towson, senior Brady Vontran, who start a foundation that raises more than $50,000 and collects more than 4,000 toys for critically ill children.Read More

HAGERSTOWN – As 15-year-old Charlotte Riggs prepared to rehearse a show tune in a room attached to Thomas McFarland’s classroom, Mr. McFarland stopped what he was doing and crept beside the half-open door.Read More

The pastor of St. Leo church in Little Italy has been removed from ministry by his religious order and stripped of his faculties to function as a priest.Read More

When the collection plate is passed Dec. 9, parishioners in churches throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore will be asked to give generously for the 20th annual appeal for the Retirement Fund for Religious.Read More