Three words, “crazy about chocolate,” on a www.match.com profile was what ultimately linked Ben Hauser and Jenny Weber as business partners and spouses.Read More
Seven months ago I was in Guadalajara, Mexico, packing my personal belongings on route to my new destination: Baltimore. For almost 10 years I had called Mexico my home, and now it was time to leave. Like the title song from U2 reads, a most difficult realization was to accept, “All that I couldn’t leave...Read More
We greet Black History Month 2009 celebrating the 20th anniversary of The National Day of Prayer for the African-American Family with new hope and the blessed assurance that “we’ve got something to celebrate.”Read More
When Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien concluded a special Jan. 25 Mass at St. Paul in Ellicott City, he announced to parishioners that it was time they receive a new pastor.Read More
I sent the following e-mail message to Sen. Mikulski on Nov. 13 using her Web site: “If the article (CR, Nov. 13) is accurate, the Freedom of Choice Act would prohibit medical providers from refusing to provide morally offensive services related to abortion. As you know many people believe abortion destroys life in the womb....Read More
Faced with declining investment values and unexpected emergency expenses, the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Central Services suffered a $20.6 million loss last year.Read More
Kicking off Catholic Schools Week in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien encouraged St. Maria Goretti High School and eighth-graders from St. Mary School to not be afraid “to take a strong stand,” in their daily lives.Read More
A day after Gov. Martin J. O’Malley released his Jan. 20 budget in Annapolis, leaders of the Maryland Catholic Conference expressed grave concerns about how it could hurt the poor, children in nonpublic schools and the unborn.Read More
WASHINGTON – Expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program should cover pregnant mothers and their unborn children, as well as legal immigrants who have not yet been in the country for five years, the head of the U.S. bishops’ domestic policy committee told senators.Read More
HARRISBURG, Pa. – The Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Death Penalty, launched Jan. 25 in Harrisburg, is not just another initiative of the bishops but instead represents lay Catholics at the grass-roots level “taking up the challenge” put forth in bishops’ documents, statements and actions over the past three decades.Read More
FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Volunteering can help America recover from its current economic crisis, said Carl Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus.Read More