MEXICO CITY – Jacinta Francisco Marcial sold ice cream in the state of Queretaro until she was accused in 2006 of kidnapping six federal agents who were searching for illegal merchandise.Read More

JERUSALEM – Ann Milner, 61, sensed she was being called by God, so she left her home in England for the nearly 2,000-mile pilgrimage from Rome to Jerusalem.Read More

WASHINGTON – When Fredron DeKarlos Blackmon was elected to lead the Knights of Peter Claver last September, it was a natural progression of his involvement as a professional lay Catholic.Read More

Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services announced June 24 that its Board of Directors has named Dr. Carolyn Y. Woo, a former member of the CRS Board, to serve as the agency’s president and CEO. Woo will succeed Ken Hackett, who is retiring after leading CRS for the past 18 years.Read More

NEW YORK – Many news stories about the recently released report on “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010” tried – and failed – to capture its complex findings in a sound bite, according to the principal investigator for the study.Read More

My Social Justice class at Saint John’s Catholic Prep in Frederick is writing to tell you about our course of actions toward poverty and economic justice. We feel it’s in the best interest to educate as many people as we can on the real issues as our first course of action, because knowledge is everything.Read More

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – First lady Michelle Obama urged a crowd of more than 2,000 that included hundreds of young women to help shape Africa’s future by combating corruption, building strong democratic institutions and working to improve the lives of the poor and sick in a speech at Regina Mundi Church in Soweto.Read More

BELMONT, N.C. – Belmont Abbey College broke ground June 20 on a campus pregnancy and aftercare maternity home called Room at the Inn.Read More