A team of volunteers from the Holy Family Catholic Community in Middletown is helping a New Orleans parish ravaged by Hurricane Katrina get back on its feet.Read More
Father Leo Patalinghug, director of pastoral field education at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, will be the featured guest on EWTN’s Life on the Rock program Nov. 29. The live broadcast is scheduled for 8-9 p.m.Read More
My wife completes chemotherapy just after Thanksgiving. It’s been a long six months. Monica was diagnosed with breast cancer in May, had surgery in June and started chemo in July. Her treatments have included seven hospitalizations, thrice weekly doctor visits, and long days of incredible fatigue, isolation, and nausea. She has been rudely forced to...Read More
VATICAN CITY – A lack of respect for the norms for celebrating the Mass after the Second Vatican Council contributed to Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to grant wider permission for the celebration of the Tridentine Mass, a Vatican official said.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI urged international assistance for Bangladesh, where thousands were killed in one of the worst cyclones in the country’s history.Read More
WARSAW, Poland – A Russian Orthodox bishop who walked out of official Catholic-Orthodox talks has accused the Vatican of pursuing dialogue with only part of the Orthodox church.Read More
The pastor of St. Leo church in Little Italy has been removed from ministry by his religious order and stripped of his faculties to function as a priest.Read More
Parishioners flocked to St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Highlandtown, Nov. 18 as Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien celebrated Mass, marking the 800th anniversary of the birth of the parish’s patron saint.Read More
VATICAN CITY – With new problems over visas for foreign priests and the long, ongoing negotiations needed to resolve the tax status of Catholic institutions in Israel, the Vatican’s former ambassador to the country said relations were better before there were full diplomatic ties.Read More
WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has named Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, a Cleveland native who is apostolic nuncio to the Dominican Republic and delegate to Puerto Rico, to head the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Abortion can never be justified, but women who repent after having an abortion should be welcomed back into the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI told the bishops of Kenya.Read More
I have been parenting for more than 27 years; there have been many years when I believed my parenting skills to be in line with my life’s greatest accomplishments and others when I just knew I totally missed the mark.Read More