TRENTON, N.J. – It is Sunday morning and Sally and Tom are preparing to take their three children – 6-year-old Abby, 3-year-old Matthew and 1-year-old Joey – to Mass.Read More

WASHINGTON – This Lent and Easter “thousands of inactive Catholics” will go to church “and some will be open to an invitation to reconnect with their Catholic faith,” said a Paulist priest who is a leader in evangelization.Read More

I would like the church to respond to the excellent letters (Jan. 29, CR) from Kaitlin Moran and Mike Brady. I am just as confused as they are regrading the standing of the Catholic Church on the issues of abortion, embryonic stem cell research, gay marriages and the Freedon of Choice Act, and what we...Read More

Walking arm-in-arm with her father up the aisle of Sacred Heart of Jesus, Highlandtown, Megan Fuller’s face was veiled with the traditional white “blusher.” Upon reaching the altar in the dim evening light, Larry Fuller ceremoniously lifted the veil and placed it gingerly behind his daughter’s head before sharing a kiss and hug, and offering...Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI renewed his “full and unquestionable solidarity” with the world’s Jews and condemned all ignorance, denial and downplaying of the brutal slaughter of millions of Jewish people during the Holocaust.Read More

Towson Catholic High School’s 2008 homecoming queen, Ashley Ryan, participated in the 50th annual Liberty Bowl Parade Jan. 1 in Memphis, Tenn., as America’s homecoming queens represented St. Jude Children’s Hospital.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI said he learned “with joy” of the election of Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad – a prelate he has met three times – as the new patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.Read More

MONROE TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Rabbi Leon Klenicki, a longtime Jewish voice on Catholic-Jewish relations, died Jan. 25 at his home in Monroe Township. He was 78 years old. No cause of death was immediately reported.Read More