Staring down a future of uncertainty, religious life finds itself in need of a map, the outgoing president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious told the organization’s members.

The social strife that roiled Spain, both during the 19th century and in the lead-up to that nation’s tragic 1936-39 civil war, serves as the background for the biography “Slaves and Kings”.

St. Anthony Catholic School in Northeast Washington has been vandalized twice in less than a week in what the principal of the school is calling “a hate crime.”

La voz de Jorge Alvarenga parece quebrantarse un poco cuando el joven de 31 años comienza a recordar y hablar sobre la última vez que vio a su madre en El Salvador. Él tenía 14 años. Ella estaba en la en ya estaba bien en camino en su segunda década de vida. Todavía estaba oscuro cuando ella subió a un auto.

A funeral Mass for Little Sister of the Poor Bernadette Wilson will be offered Aug. 17 at St. Martin’s Home for the Aged in Catonsville. Sister Bernadette died Aug. 12. She was 71.