Immigrant church must lead the way on immigration reform, cardinal says

NEW YORK – Catholic leaders and universities should “come out of the shadows” and take a significant role in educating those who are ambivalent or undecided about the issue of comprehensive immigration reform, according to Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles.
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Middle Tennessee begins long recovery from floods

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – More than 15 inches of rain fell in some areas of middle Tennessee as May began, causing unprecedented flood damage in the area and killing at least 19 people.
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Pope, at audience, calls for complete nuclear disarmament

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI asked world leaders to work calmly and seriously to control the spread of nuclear weapons “in the prospect of their complete elimination from the planet.”
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God always works – through us or despite us

It still amazes and impresses many of us that the first followers of Christ were communists! No, not the communists most of us experienced in the 20th-century – atheists, often cruel dictators. The Christians tried to live as true followers of Jesus – sharing all they had with each other.
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Journey to Mother Lange’s homeland

It’s hard to believe that on Jan. 12, the earth violently opened up and swallowed well over 200,000 people on the island of Haiti. As the land of my birth and having been personally affected by the tragedy, I knew I had to return to serve and did during Easter week as a medical missionary.
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Retired college professor helps Baltimoreans earn GED

When Ed Sommerfeldt stepped down in 2007 after nearly four decades as a computer science and mathematics professor at Coppin State University in Baltimore, he could have devoted his retirement to going on cruises. That just wasn’t in him.
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Statue from Nagasaki, Japan, a poignant reminder of nuclear threat

NEW YORK – Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki Takami of Nagasaki, Japan, was an unborn child in his mother’s womb on Aug. 9, 1945, when the second atomic bomb obliterated his hometown. The blast killed about 75,000 people and brought an end to World War II.
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Immediate, long-term solutions to jobs crisis proposed at symposium

WASHINGTON – As tough as the current U.S. job market is, things could get even tougher in the future without the right kind of education and training, according to speakers at an April 30 symposium in Washington on “The Future of American Jobs.”
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Hispanic young adults united in faith

Norma Urbina, a 23-year-old parishioner of St. Clare parish in Essex, thinks it can be difficult to be a Latino young adult in the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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School’s baseball lineage more poignant with imminent closing

One week before the start of this baseball season, Matt Foster received gut-punching news. The first-year coach of Cardinal Gibbons High School, where he was a 2001 graduate, learned that the Archdiocese of Baltimore would close the institution in June for financial reasons
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Q&A with Daniel Schuster

Daniel Schuster, owner of Schuster Concrete Construction, has been at the heart of many discussions in the Archdiocese of Baltimore lately. Following Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien’s March announcement of the consolidation of 13 schools, Schuster took to the radio airwaves for advertisements critical of the decision
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Brooks: Fans ‘deserve better’

Brooks Robinson counts himself among those who have been disappointed by the dismal performance of the Baltimore Orioles of recent years
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