Religious Education

Vic Dunlop dies at 62; zany comic

2011-08-16 00:00:00

Vic Dunlop, a zany and irreverent standup comic with a natural flair for making people laugh, has died. He was 62. Dunlop died of complications of diabetes Saturday at Glendale Adventist Medical Center, said his wife, Linda. -------------------- FOR THE...

Book review: 'The Novice: A Story of True Love'

2011-09-04 00:00:00

The Novice A Story of True Love Thich Nhat Hanh HarperOne: 147 pp., $23.99 The novel, as a storytelling device, begins with that white parchment of possibility, turns many tricks, reveals many truths and, in the best of hands, can exploit the very...

Thinking outside the 'Muslim bubble'

2011-09-03 19:04:00

Bobbie Lee Holmes dies at 84; teacher challenged neighbors' racism

2011-10-11 00:00:00

Bobbie Lee Holmes, a Los Angeles public school teacher who won an early victory for fair housing in California when she and her husband used the courts to challenge the racism of their Pacoima neighbors, died Sept.19 in Petaluma. She was 84. The cause...

Pakistan seminary raid finds students held in abusive conditions

2011-12-13 16:38:22

Anita Caspary dies at 95; 'rebel nun' founded Immaculate Heart Community

2011-10-16 00:00:00

During a showdown with the Catholic Church in the late 1960s, Anita Caspary and the Los Angeles order she led, the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, were cast as "rebel nuns" for progressive reforms that included abandoning the nun's habit and...

San Diego Valley View Casino: The lobster buffet is a winner

2011-07-24 00:00:00

"I used to win like crazy," my friend Juanita Mendonca would tell me. "Every slot machine turned to gold. I'd come home and my purse would be stuffed with money." Juanita, a retired parochial school teacher with a magic touch at the slots, loved to...

Bernadine Healy dies at 67; doctor led Red Cross relief efforts after 9/11

2011-08-09 00:00:00

Dr. Bernadine Healy, a hard-charging cardiologist and educator who was the first woman to lead the National Institutes of Health and later commanded American Red Cross relief efforts after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, died Saturday at her home in Gates...

'Dexter' recap: It's hammer time!

2011-10-03 04:36:28

Lady Gaga to premiere Thanksgiving special on ABC

2011-11-03 16:35:10

Sundays with Sondheimer: Being Jewish at a Catholic school

2011-07-17 16:36:39

Boys' basketball: Servite hires John Morris as interim coach

2011-08-18 21:37:11

St. Mary Catholic School students Danielle Wells and Julianna Swarner investigate owl pellets in the new science lab at the Hagerstown school.

2011-11-07 08:33:11

Chloe Dellaposta and her father, Joe Dellaposta, enjoy doughnuts together at St. Mary Catholic School.

2011-10-31 07:10:06

Sister Elizabeth Sjoberg of the Daughters of Charity in Emmittsburg leads a game for a group of fifth-graders from area Catholic schools as they attended a religious vocation conference at Notre Dame University of Maryland.

2011-10-27 00:00:00