On May 19, Mary and I followed one of our grandsons to Germantown, where his Fewster FC won the Maryland State Youth Soccer Association U-13 title. His coach is Barry Stitz, best known as the coach of Archbishop Curley but a fine player in his own right a generation agoRead More

Father Edward C. Connelly, former longtime pastor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Crofton and an advocate for social justice, died Aug. 18 at age 80.Read More

If a Catholic doesn’t receive Communion at a wedding ceremony in a Protestant church, does that mean the Catholic does not support the newlywed couple?Read More

A funeral Mass for School Sister of Notre Dame Eileen McCarthy was offered July 29 at the chapel at Villa Notre Dame in Wilton, Conn.Read More

The PRIDE program provides options for parents of children who have special needs or a learning disability.Read More

When you are waiting to adopt your child, you focus so much on one moment—the moment you will hold your child in your arms for the first time.Will he scream?Will he smile?Will he cry?Will he feel like my son?Will I feel like his mother?You read and ask questions and pray.Read More

There were certain things I expected as our family headed out of town recently for a week-long vacation in the Midwest. First, there was the long drive to central Illinois – 13-plus hours of pounding the pavement on the highways and byways of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.  After three days,Read More

I had imagined taking Leo with me on his school supplies shopping trip, happily skipping through the aisles together as we selected crayons and markers. But I thought it might be tedious for our new kindergartner, so I decided to go alone.Then I got to the store, looked at theRead More