In eight brief chapters, “Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith” presents both the story of O’Connor’s life and the story of how she became, O’Donnell writes, “perhaps the most celebrated American Catholic writer of the 20th century – and justly so.”Read More
Heart is the key in “Rediscover Jesus.” He doesn’t preach; he doesn’t bludgeon. Rather, with a pastoral tone, Kelly speaks to readers’ hearts, guiding them in that journey, that rediscovery.Read More
Do you have a resolution for the New Year?A year ago, I announced that I was planning to make 2015 a year of saying no. I never reported back on that because my attempt to say no during the Year of No was an outright failure.So this year I am tryingRead More
After a long battle with illness, Joseph John Hughes of Bel Air went Home to Our Lord on Christmas Eve. It was the day before his wife Germaine’s Christmas birthday. And as I think of Joe coming into the Nearer Presence of the Lord, an image comes toRead More
Bon Secours Sister Justine Cyr was a national leader in healthcare ministry who served as a pediatric nurse, director of nursing and a hospital administrator.Read More
The Archdiocese of Baltimore has received an allegation involving Ms. Catherine Czapski, 24, who has served as soccer and track/cross-country coach and substitute teacher at Bishop Walsh School, a K-12 Catholic school in Cumberland.Read More
More than 400 people from a wide variety of faiths ushered in the new year by coming together at St. Katharine Drexel in Frederick for a Dec. 31 interfaith prayer service.Read More