Archbishop Spalding High School, Severn, announced the appointment of Andrew Bauer as their new head varsity boys’ basketball coach. Bauer, a longtime junior varsity head coach and varsity assistant to Pat Clatchey of Mount St. Joseph High School in Irvington, will bring a wealth of experience, a history of success, and a tradition of winning...Read More

In a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the Archbishop Curley cross country team, four seniors took part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., on Aug. 16. On that drizzly day, the four Friar senior runners, Tim Skarda, Pat Hairfield, Jonathan Sobczynski and Kevin Sommers,...Read More

WASHINGTON – Girls often dream of saying “I do” at the altar to their future spouse. Katrina Gredona hopes she’ll be saying those words to Jesus as a religious sister. “When I look at a community of religious women, I see women who contribute fruitfully to the church and to the world in a very...Read More

ST. LOUIS – A new Catholic school for children with autism is opening Sept. 5 in the St. Louis Archdiocese.Read More

Change is coming to St. John the Evangelist in Columbia as the parish, unique in its interfaith, ecumenical environment and challenge, celebrates its 40th anniversary and the 30 years Monsignor Richard H. Tillman has been its pastor.Read More

High school students don’t have to be overwhelmed when picking a college as long as they put college planning on their agenda each year leading up to graduation, according to Monica Moody Moore, vice president for enrollment management at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore. “You don’t want to use a singular source...Read More

NEWARK, N.J. – Through the work of the Archdiocese of Newark’s Catholic Charities’ refugee resettlement and human trafficking programs, a former trafficking victim was reunited with her 9-year-old son July 26 at Newark Liberty International Airport after more than four years of forced separation.Read More

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Civil rights activists and church groups in Sri Lanka have demanded an independent and impartial inquiry with international participation into last year’s disappearance of a Catholic priest and his companion in troubled Jaffna.Read More