The focus of the Feb. 2 performance of “The Rumble In My Voice” at St. Bernardine, Baltimore, may be on National Black History Month, but organizers also hope it will welcome community members into the church.Read More
HONDO VALLE, Dominican Republic – Thanks to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul’s Long Island, N.Y., conferences and their counterpart in Hondo Valle, Negro, a blind man whose wife would lock him in the house alone while she worked her small farm, now has a safe home.Read More
The duties of a school nurse go far beyond dispensing Tylenol or bandaging a scraped knee. Today’s school nurses track reports of potential pandemics, evaluate environmental hazards, review school policies, follow a dizzying array of regulations, and educate parents, faculty and students about health issues. And yes, bandage a knee when needed.Read More
Whether she’s running up and down a soccer field in the fall, or darting around a lacrosse field in the spring, Carly Ross calls the playing field her second home.Read More
“Is marriage eroding?” (CR, April 16) was disturbing. People need to wake up. Marriage as a sacrament and worthy vocation has been eroding for so long that its erosion is not a question, it is a fact.Read More
WASHINGTON – The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is urging priests across the country to preach about “the terrible toll the current economic turmoil is taking on families and communities.”Read More
Holy Week 2009 will go down as one of the most memorable and joyful for many pastors and parishioners throughout the archdiocese, as nearly 900 people were received fully into the Catholic Church during the April 11 Easter Vigil – the biggest number in a decade.Read More
The archdiocesan Respect Life Office and the Division of Youth and Young Adult Ministry are jointly sponsoring a pro-life video contest for youth and young adults in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.Read More
The second coming was great, wasn’t it? No, I don’t mean the second coming of Christ. That hasn’t happened, yet, at least to my knowledge. Although it would be just like me. The world ended and I was too busy to notice!Read More
When St. Faustina Kowalska received revelations from Jesus over the course of her short life, the Polish nun reported that Christ frequently asked that a feast day be dedicated to Divine Mercy and that the feast be celebrated on the Sunday after Easter.Read More