The Archbishop Curley High School, Baltimore, Friars enter the 2008 lacrosse season coming off a 2007 MIAA B Conference championship and an 18-1 overall record – the school’s best.Read More
Father Kurt Pritzl, O.P., Ph.D., will give a talk titled “Truth, Truths and Contemplation,” at Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville on April 19.Read More
ST. LOUIS – Archbishop Raymond L. Burke of St. Louis said March 5 that he must proceed with the canonical process of dismissing dissident priest Father Marek Bozek from the clerical state because he has refused to return to his home diocese to be reconciled with the Catholic Church.Read More
I remember the faithfulness of Monsignor James J. Cronin (CR, Feb. 13). Every Sunday after Mass he would be standing outside our church ready to greet us to smile and say hello or to share something funny that would make you laugh. Somehow he made you feel better. He excelled in lifting our human spirit.Read More
LONDON – An English bishop asked Catholics in England and Wales to mark the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq by praying for the Iraqi Christian community, which is “undergoing its own Calvary.”Read More
WASHINGTON – The kidnapped archbishop of Mosul, Iraq, recently found dead there, had asked for prayers for Iraqi Chaldean Catholics and said he would be the last person to leave Mosul.Read More
ROME – The office in charge of promoting Pope John Paul II’s sainthood cause is looking for English speakers who have a story to tell about their meeting with the late pope, their prayers for his intercession or graces received after asking for his help.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s April 15-20 visit to the United States is his eighth trip outside Italy since the beginning of his pontificate in April 2005.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s first visit to the United States as head of the Catholic Church features a diverse series of encounters with government leaders, interreligious and ecumenical representatives, the academic world and the Catholic faithful.Read More
“Beautiful” and “very majestic” were the words Guilford resident Madeleine Ranieri used to describe the Passion Sunday Mass celebrated by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien March 16 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Homeland.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Published just a month before Pope Benedict XVI’s scheduled arrival in the United States, the Vatican’s official program for the April 15-20 papal trip to Washington and New York was all that had been promised and a tiny bit more.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Jewish leaders have been assured that the Vatican secretary of state will issue a statement in March saying that the pope’s revised prayer for Good Friday for the Tridentine rite is not a call for Catholics to try to convert Jews.Read More