WASHINGTON – The long-held tradition of St. Patrick’s Day parades has experienced a bump in the road this year with the saint’s feast day occurring during an unusually early Holy Week.Read More
Dorothea McGee was thrilled to greet Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien at the front door of her Friendship Station Senior Housing apartment in Odenton Feb. 19.Read More
In the old days, big families with closely spaced children enjoyed significant tuition breaks for the youngest children – even sending them to Catholic schools for free.Read More
WASHINGTON – When President George W. Bush and Pope Benedict XVI meet in April in Washington, they will continue discussions begun during Bush’s 2007 visit to the Vatican on the two leaders’ “common commitment to the importance of faith and reason in reaching shared goals,” according to the White House.Read More
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – A church-run training program for rural doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo has helped ease the plight of women in the war-torn eastern region where sexual violence is common, an aid worker said.Read More
PORT EDWARDS, Wis. – The production of pulp and paper products is synonymous with the small Wisconsin town of Port Edwards. Together with the other towns and cities in the La Crosse Diocese that straddle the Wisconsin River – including Nekoosa, Wisconsin Rapids, Stevens Point, Mosinee and Wausau – Port Edwards is and always has...Read More
Though Catholics come together Easter Sunday to celebrate the resurrection of Christ, children are treated to the spoils of a cotton-tailed rabbit and the promise of spring’s splendor.Read More
Pro-life supporters from across the state plan to use the upcoming March 13 Maryland March for Life in Annapolis to build support for crisis pregnancy centers and defeat a bill they say would hinder outreach to expectant mothers.Read More
Show the community of west Baltimore a little respect by purchasing a ticket to hear Aretha Franklin. The music legend will give a benefit concert at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on March 20. Proceeds from “An Evening with Aretha Franklin” will go to the Bon Secours of Maryland Foundation.Read More
A funeral Mass for James W. Donaghy was offered Feb. 23 at St. Mary Church in Mineral Ridge, Ohio. Mr. Donaghy, who died Feb. 19, is the brother of Father Thomas Donaghy, a retired priest from the Archdiocese of Baltimore, who now lives in Pennsylvania.Read More
HAVANA – At a meeting with Cuban bishops and an open-air Mass, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state and the highest-ranking Catholic Church representative to visit Cuba in the past 10 years, said he hoped his visit would help advance church-state relations.Read More