Effective school choice programs require — at a minimum — a combination of access, availability, leadership and communication.

Every child is creative and can have moments of joy. That is what motivates Marlena Murtagh, an art teacher at Maryvale Preparatory school in Lutherville, every day.

The growing acceptance of euthanasia in Norway represents a troubling trend that threatens the protection of human life and dignity from conception to natural death, Norwegian bishops said.

Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, visited Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis Sept. 3 and laid flowers at the temporary memorial where two children were killed and 21 other people were injured in an Aug. 27 shooting.

Abortion — an act performed with the sole or primary intent of ending human life in the womb — is never medically necessary, according to medical doctors and Catholic experts on the issue.