For years, Horace Wisniewski faithfully brought Holy Communion to the sick and dying in Dundalk. But after a heart attack slowed him down about a year ago, the roles changed. Now the 90-year-old extraordinary minister of Holy Communion from Sacred Heart of Mary, Graceland Park, relies on others to bring the Eucharist to him.Read More
In honor of the founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, St. John Baptist de La Salle, Calvert Hall College High School’s 1,250 student body gathered for a special Mass celebrated by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien May 15.Read More
For Anne Lucido, the complexities of life and death are part of the job – literally. The St. Agnes, Catonsville, parishioner has worked at New Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore for 37 years.Read More
MIANYANG, China – Sister Zhang Yimei expressed gratitude to God for protecting her younger brother, a priest, during the recent earthquake, but is concerned for the well-being of the family of another nun serving in her parish.Read More
WARSAW, Poland – The Catholic Church in Poland is seeking the canonization of a peasant couple shot with their six small children for hiding Jews in their farmhouse during the Holocaust.Read More
CHICAGO – David Heimann’s dream was to spend 365 days in 365 different places, each destination a new opportunity to experience Christ made flesh in our world today.Read More
In his commentary on the Scriptures for the fifth Sunday of Easter, Father Daniel Harrington, S.J., offers the following: “Philip’s request to Jesus (‘Show us the Father and that will be enough for us’) is the occasion for Jesus to express the central and most profound insight in all of John’s Gospel: ‘Whoever has seen...Read More
For Anne Lucido, the complexities of life and death are part of the job – literally. The St. Agnes, Catonsville, parishioner has worked at New Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore for 37 years.Read More
EMMITSBURG – Holding her black graduation cap in one hand and gently dabbing a tissue to her eyes to stave off an allergy attack, Lola Jemibewon was filled with mixed emotions as she stood in line waiting for her May 11 graduation procession to begin at Mount St. Mary’s University.Read More
Paul McMullen, a Baltimore native with four decades of experience in the newspaper business, has been appointed managing editor of The Catholic Review.Read More
WASHINGTON – The brief policy statement on embryonic stem-cell research that is to come before the U.S. bishops at their June 12-14 meeting in Orlando, Fla., is designed to set the stage for a later, more pastoral document explaining why the Catholic Church opposes some reproductive technologies.Read More