When the Oblate Sisters of Providence say you can have a ball without leaving home, they really mean it.Read More

Cub Scout Pack 883, chartered to St. Joseph, Sykesville, held its annual Halloween party and pack meeting Oct. 24 where Cub Scouts received awards they earned for October. The boys participated in a Halloween costume contest and Halloween-themed games, including a Twinkie-eating contest in which the Scouts ate the cakes smothered with whipped cream, sprinkles,...Read More

Karen and Phil Ruberry love the stories that go along with the nearly 300 antique lamps in their collection. For five years they have found their treasures through dealers, collectors’ clubs, e-Bay, trade publications, antique shows and auctions, and antique-ing on weekends. They own unusual kerosene lamps, early whale oil lamps, pewter lamps, miniature oil...Read More

What will be important to us 25 years after we have died? I ask that question because Nov. 10 marks the 25th anniversary of my mother’s death. The woman whom I could not imagine living without, at one point in life, is in fact someone I have lived without for 25 years!Read More

In the midst of this protracted election season, a seeming division among the Catholic leadership in our country has emerged, representing different approaches to this year’s document of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship.” Despite these differences, the Catholic bishops of the United States remain totally and universally committed to...Read More

I can’t remember precisely when I fell in love with history, but it was surely in the first innings of my reading life.Read More

WASHINGTON – In voting on 2008 ballot questions across the country, the Catholic Church’s view against same-sex marriage prevailed, but most Catholic efforts to influence voting related to abortion, assisted suicide, embryonic stem-cell research and gambling failed.Read More

While supporters can scarcely contain their euphoria over Sen. Barack Obama’s historic win of the U.S. presidency – the first for a black man – I am still stuck chewing on the fact that Obama was a major political party’s nominee for president in the first place, let alone the victor in the 2008 epic...Read More