As Gov. Lawrence Hogan Jr. battles stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, St. Mary in Annapolis will host a rosary prayer service for the governor’s health July 8 at 7 p.m.Read More

In his encyclical on ecology, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," Pope Francis coined several new terms.Read More

For some parishioners at St. Clare in Essex, the “freedom to bear witness” is not just a warm, fuzzy concept, but a call to action.Read More

We live so close to Washington, D.C., that it’s a little embarrassing that we’ve never really taken our children there. So, when my father, sister, and her four children decided to make a day trip to D.C. on Thursday, our boys and I made a spur-of-the-moment decision to tag along.IndependenceRead More

A Vatican official told a U.N. gathering the pope is calling on all societies to examine how they produce and consume goods.Read More

Any movie plot that hangs on the ability of an adult character to journey into the past to give vital advice to himself as a child is bound to register as somewhat convoluted.Read More

The pace of life gets slower and sweeter each year during the summer season. People seem to smile more, children's laughter is in the air, and the pace of life seems easier to handle.My favorite part of summer has always been the simple pleasures...Fresh fruit and vegetables, beautiful flowers inRead More

When we were raising our caterpillars and waiting for them to become butterflies, I accidentally identified them as Monarch caterpillars. They were, in fact, Painted Ladies.The first person to point out my mistake was Chris Drees, a master gardener who wrote to tell me that our caterpillars didn’t look likeRead More