BALTIMORE – The Catholic University of America has had a record-breaking year for freshman enrollment and for national fundraising, its president, Vincentian Father David M. O’Connell, reported Nov. 10 to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.Read More

Megan Nappi didn’t mince words as she sat in a circle with young adults from Baltimore and Washington, surrounded by some of the nation’s leading adolescent catechesis experts Nov. 6 at the Maritime Institute and Conference Center in Linthicum.Read More

BALTIMORE – The historic significance of the election of President-elect Barack Obama dominated the Nov. 10 opening address of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ fall general assembly in Baltimore.Read More

VATICAN CITY – German-born Pope Benedict XVI said he still feels “pain for what happened” in his homeland in 1938 when Nazi mobs went on the rampage against Jews, an event that became known as Kristallnacht.Read More

The election of Sen. Barack Obama generated a decidedly mixed response from Catholic leaders throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore.Read More

For nearly 40 years, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development has been helping the poor help themselves.Read More

WASHINGTON – Across the nation 476 Newman centers offer pastoral services to 11 million Catholic college students at secular universities.Read More

WASHINGTON – Nonprofit organizations, often seen as the last bastion separating people from poverty, may find themselves on shakier financial footing because of the current economic upheaval, a panelist suggested during a Nov. 4 forum in Washington sponsored by the Urban Institute.Read More