This week marks the one-year anniversary of the election of Pope Francis. Not surprisingly, recent polls have shown what we all have come to know about our new Holy Father: Pope Francis has caught the attention of American Catholics.Read More
My mother is 100 percent Irish, so I grew up with soda bread baking in the oven, “Toora Loora Loora” at bedtime, and a series of green cars my father drove to hand out programs at the St. Patrick’s Day parade.Yet somehow I never knew about The Quiet Man untilRead More
UPDATED Zachary Lederer, whose courage in the face of cancer inspired admirers from his Howard County parish to the college basketball world, died at age 20 March 11.Read More
Archbishop William E. Lori, the Archdiocese of Baltimore and Catholic Review Media (CRMedia) are part of a federal lawsuit filed March 12 to stop a Health and Human Services mandate under the Affordable Care Act they believe would require them to provide health insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs.Read More
One year ago when Pope Francis was elected, I launched a poetry contest. I even offered to award a box of noodles to the winner.I pitched this limerick to start the poetry slam:So who is this new pope, Pope Francis?He cooks for himself and he dances.Therese is one of hisRead More
Leo Bretholz (March 6, 1921 - March 8, 2014)Photo: Many thanks to Lisa Shifren Photography Leo Bretholz has inspired John Carroll seniors for years with his words of wisdom and courage as he recounted the atrocities that he and countless others endured at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust.Read More