The Maryland Catholic Conference, the lobbying arm of the state’s Catholic bishops, has compiled a resource that lists the positions of President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on a number of topics of interest to Catholic voters.Read More

Like most Catholics, I have trouble understanding the premature termination of human life. Our pro-life stance is one of the defining traits of our faith. For non-Catholics, however, our perspective on abortion seems archaic, naïve, hypocritical, misogynistic, and insensitive, among many other pejoratives.  Problem It’s easy to become emotionalRead More

Since abortion has been legalized in the United States since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, there have been approximately 53 million abortions performed in the U.S. and roughly 4 to 8 million adoptions.Read More

In 2009, a third of Cumberland’s Catholics were 60 or older, and funerals were twice as common as baptisms.Read More