ANNAPOLIS – Gov. Martin J. O’Malley’s budget doesn’t do enough to help the state’s Catholic and other independent colleges, according to the leaders of Maryland’s three Catholic colleges.Read More
“Building for peace in a violent world” is the theme of the 29th annual Social Ministry Convocation March 1 at The Seton Keough High School, 1201 Caton Ave., in Baltimore. Registration for the event, which will be held from 8:15 a.m. to 3 p.m., is $10. Lunch is provided for those who pre-register.Read More
Pancreatic cancer, the disease that recently claimed the lives of Apple founder Steve Jobs and Pep Perrella, good and faithful friend of the archdiocese, and which has stricken Archbishop Spalding football coach Mike Whittles and WBAL talk show host Ron Smith, remains a killer un-caged by modern medicine.Read More
In his book, “Jesus before Christianity,” Father Albert Nolan, currently provincial for the South African Province of the Dominicans, says that “there is no mistaking the two quite different ways in which power and authority are understood and exercised. It is the difference between domination and service.”Read More
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio – Columbus Bishop Frederick F. Campbell asked for prayers Feb. 7 following the stabbing of a teacher at Notre Dame Elementary School in Portsmouth.Read More
ARAKAN, Philippines – An Italian priest doing mission work in a remote area of the southern Philippines was gunned down inside the compound of Mother of Perpetual Help Parish in Arakan, said a local official.Read More
AMMAN, Jordan – Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Jordan on the first leg of a Holy Land pilgrimage and praised the country’s efforts to oppose conflict and violence between the West and the Islamic world.Read More
ST. LOUIS – People who represent Catholic institutions have an obligation to “show respect for the teachings of the church” and not to take public positions contrary to those teachings, Archbishop Raymond L. Burke of St. Louis said in an interview with his archdiocesan newspaper.Read More
It was a galaxy far away and a time long ago, which means that the story I’m about to tell happened somewhere else in the distant past. It’s a story that did not have a happy beginning. A young woman was pregnant and decided she should have an abortion. Her mother agreed with her, and...Read More