Father Bauer, Orioles’ chaplain, goes to bat for God and the O’s

Father John Bauer was looking for a cold drink on a hot day at the ballpark when God threw him a curveball.
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Amen: Daddy-daughter time

‘Woof-woofs,’ polkas and prayers offer life lessons for father of 15-month-old girl.
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Interfaith and ecumenical leaders ready to meet pope and ask prayers for Baltimore

“It’s an opportunity for us to focus collectively and uniquely on a variety of issues and possible resolutions,” Father Donald Sterling said.
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Our Back Pages: Touting marriage in the 1890s

Unless a man and woman are willing to give up their individuality for one another in marriage, Father Rooker said, they have no right to marry
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Finding healing after an abortion in the Archdiocese of Baltimore

To help with the trauma of abortion, the Catholic Church offers healing and ministry of presence.
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Our Back Pages: Unmasking the mysterious Xavier Rynne

Redemptorist Father Francis X. Murphy, the mysterious Vatican insider who used the “Xavier Rynne” pseudonym to publish detailed reports about intrigue at the Second Vatican Council, acknowledged his true identity to readers of the Catholic Review 25 years ago.
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Product of synod may be a deepening of mercy

In emphasizing mercy as the central duty of the church, the pope is affecting the way church leaders and people in the pews are thinking about family life.
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Gov. Hogan and Comptroller Franchot volunteer at Our Daily Bread

Gov. Lawrence Hogan Jr. and Comptroller Peter Franchot volunteered at Our Daily Bread in Baltimore Nov. 24.
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Amen: On the trail with Father Beshoner

After a long hiatus, Father Beshoner recently relaunched Catholic Under the Hood with a seemingly monumental mission: telling the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church from apostolic times to the present.
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Anti-Catholic bigotry fails to dampen call to love in Philadelphia

Thousands gather around a video screen at 15th Street and JFK Boulevard to watch the papal Mass in Philadelphia Sept. 27. (George P. Matysek Jr./CR Staff)“Enter that line and you enter the path of destruction!”That’s what a man holding a sign filled with Bible verses screamed
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‘Art in Heaven:’ Archdiocese bids farewell to Monsignor Valenzano

In a final sendoff marked with heartfelt displays of raw emotion, hundreds of people said goodbye to Monsignor Arthur F. Valenzano.
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Praise Jesus for Monsignor Valenzano

When a doctor told Treasa and me two years ago that our unborn baby likely wouldn’t live for more than a day or two after his birth, one of the first people I called was Monsignor Arthur Valenzano.
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