Nine elves climbed all over the scrolled iron chandelier in Norma Hoff’s kitchen, and in Tom Hoff’s study, Christmas lights illuminated the surrounding red, white, and blue ornaments on a patriotic-themed tree.Read More

Standing beneath three bright floodlights at Our Daily Bread Employment Center in Baltimore, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien looked straight into a slow- rolling tele¬vision camera and made a heartfelt pitch for generosity.Read More

ROME – An Italian government official intervened to stop a hospital from withholding nutrition and hydration from a woman who has been in a persistent vegetative state for 16 years.Read More

NEW ORLEANS – If his recent whirlwind tour of Capitol Hill was any indication, Anh “Joseph” Cao knows he will be in for the ride of his life over the next two years.Read More

Before tackling “Dignitas Personae” (The Dignity of a Person), the recent instruction from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on contemporary bioethical questions, I’d suggest re-reading the first chapter of Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” Huxley was no great shakes as a stylist, but his depiction of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning...Read More

On the first Sunday of Advent, I visited the Festival of Trees at the Timonium Fairgrounds. Among the many vendors, I discovered Gizmo’s Art, and I found a framed early representation of Santa Claus, and a poem I had never seen before. It was dated 1899, but no author was credited and no newspaper cited....Read More

The name and owner may have changed, but the mission of the St. Agnes Hospice Center for Bereavement Care remains strong 25 years into its journey of helping those mourning the loss of loved ones.Read More

Little girls resplendent in the garb of Latin America walked up the aisle to bring red, white and yellow roses to their beloved Our Lady of Guadalupe. Boys wearing vests emblazoned with the Virgin Mary shook maracas as they performed an Aztec dance. Mariachis in black sombreros played in the sanctuary near the framed replica...Read More