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
Even as Josephite Father Robert “Rocky” Kearns was on his deathbed in an Alabama hospital earlier this month, he was still talking about the world he was about to leave.Read More
VATICAN CITY – “Light a star on the tree of life” by helping the Vatican provide antiretroviral drugs to people with AIDS in the world’s poorest countries, said Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan.Read More
ROME – While church and state should be separate and respect each other’s role in society, they must cooperate to promote peace, solidarity and the good of all people, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More
ROME – Despite years of economic hardship and violence in Iraq, the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena are working in the country to promote human rights, said an Iraqi nun.Read More
ROME – The Catholic Church would benefit from having more women in senior-level positions at the Vatican, Cherie Blair said during a conference on the church’s role in defending women’s rights.Read More
With nervous quick reads and high voices behind a podium almost taller than most of them, students from four Catholic schools read aloud their winning essays Dec. 4 in the “How a Woman I Love Takes Great Care of Me” student essay celebration sponsored by Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore.Read More
Frederick V. Roussey heads a cemetery crew like the city cop he once was. The day begins with morning roll call in the house at a corner of New Cathedral Cemetery, where he is superintendent. There, he dispatches his crew in new fire-engine-red trucks to the 125-acre cemetery in West Baltimore.Read More