When Monsignor Robert L. Hartnett arrived at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Essex 12 years ago, the neighborhood parish was trying to hold together a surrounding community undergoing great change.Read More

WEST RUTLAND, Vt. – When Father Adam Krempa sits down for a light meal, he enjoys a bowl of cottage cheese drizzled with honey, seeded rye bread lightly toasted with butter not margarine and a cup of coffee with a heaping teaspoon of honey. “It’s like dying and having lunch with the Lord,” said the...Read More

Three years ago, Elizabeth Monaghan was simply enjoying her job as an English professor at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg.Read More

When the second collection basket is passed to parishioners around the Archdiocese of Baltimore June 2 and 3, their donations will be given to evangelization programs nationwide in the black, Native American, Eskimo and Aleut communities. The Black and Native American Missions collection has been conducted throughout the United States since 1884, with proceeds distributed...Read More

VATICAN CITY – A year after Pope Benedict XVI opened the way to wider use of the Tridentine Mass, implementation of the papal directive is drawing mixed reviews from its target audience.Read More

APARECIDA, Brazil – Saying “it’s five minutes to midnight” for the Amazon, a bishop from Brazil made an impassioned plea for all the countries of the world to join forces to stop the destruction of the rain forest. German-born Bishop Erwin Krautler of Xingu, in northern Para state, said during a press conference May 19...Read More

WASHINGTON – The financial shocks that have staggered the U.S. economy in September have raised worries about the prices of housing, energy and food as well as retirement income, said a spokesman for a Catholic-run investment services firm.Read More

CUMBERLAND – Surrounded by colorful dangling rosaries, intricate crucifixes, scapulars, prayer books and all manner of saintly figurines, Betty Dyer rested a hand on a glass countertop and surveyed her diverse inventory. “It’s a lovely space,” said Ms. Dyer, one of the volunteer coordinators of the Catholic gift shop at Ss. Peter and Paul in...Read More