Across Baltimore and the nation, prices at the gas pump and grocery store are skyrocketing. Housing sales have slowed to a crawl and the unending debate of how to reform Social Security will be a key issue in the presidential debates over the next few months.Read More

A funeral Mass for Sister Mary Dulcis Pilachowska, C.S.S.F., was offered May 5 at the Felician Sisters’ Infirmary Chapel, Our Lady of Lourdes Hall in Lodi, N.J. Sister Mary Dulcis died April 30. She was 95 and had been a sister for 77 years.Read More

Just a few weeks ago, a disturbing open-air drug market was forming right in front of St. Frances Academy and Community Center on Chase Street. Drug dealers were passing out free samples right next to the St. Frances Convent, and dealers were stashing drugs on the high school’s campus right beneath the statue of the...Read More

In late April and early May, the blogosphere was in an uproar over two documents circulated by the National Counterterrorism Center, which is charged with strategic coordination among federal agencies of the war against terrorism. “The Words That Work” and “Terminology to Define the Terrorists” urged government officials and U.S. diplomats to avoid “Islamism” and...Read More

QUEBEC CITY – It seemed fitting that the weeklong 49th International Eucharistic Congress ended on a battlefield. Some 55,000 people celebrated the theme of the congress, “The Eucharist, Gift of God for the Life of the World,” in a Mass where almost 250 years ago British and French soldiers shot each other down.Read More

WASHINGTON – Europe and Iraq were ranked among the 10 “worst places for refugees” in the 2008 World Refugee Survey for policies such as “warehousing” refugees for decades or for forcing them back to dangerous situations in their homelands.Read More

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien has appointed Father Kevin A. Mueller, a Baltimore area native who spent the last two years at St. Mary in Hagerstown, as the new pastor of Church of the Holy Apostles, Gambrills.Read More

For Joanne Gardner, the music she plays on the organ at St. Stephen in Bradshaw has always been “for the honor and glory of God.”Read More