You might be tempted to pull out your Rubbermaid boxes and start packing away your decorations. Don’t do it. Christmas might be over, but the Christmas season is just starting.After fasting and doing penance for the four weeks of Advent (right?), I am not going to be content with oneRead More

 When I was a little kid, I didn’t seem to grasp the real meaning of Christmas. Christmas just seemed like a day to receive gifts.On Christmas Eve I headed over to St. Margaret’s Church in Bel Air for their 4:00pm Christmas Eve celebration before going to a relative’s house forRead More

Archbishop William E. Lori celebrated his first Christmas Eve Mass in the Archdiocese of Baltimore at St. Joseph Church in Fullerton.Read More

  As Teresa Bartlinski waits for a heart transplant, she is looking forward to celebrating Jesus' birth and her sixth birthday tomorrow. What an amazing, vibrant little girl she is, and what a loving family she has. This morning The Today Show shared Teresa's story in a moving segment that gives a beautiful glimpseRead More

 Eleven years ago, the concern heard around the world was Y2K. If you’re not old enough to remember that, Y2K was a theory that computers and other electronics would not be able to handle the date change to the year 2000. This, in turn, would cause a worldwide collapse ofRead More

A humorist once commented that only Francis Scott Key knew all the verses to the Star Spangled Banner – Our National Anthem.Read More

In a memorial service in Newtown, Conn., President Barack Obama pledged to do all in his power to end the kind of violence that struck the small town Dec. 14 when a gunman killed first his mother at her home and then 26 students and adults at a school before taking his own life.Read More

  Three years ago yesterday, we boarded a plane in China with our new 2-year-old son.   For hour after hour we took turns entertaining him, feeding him, and pacing the plane. It was a frighteningly turbulent flight, but finally we landed. I had never known such relief. But we weren’t home yet. As we...Read More