LINTHICUM –The Catholic Review’s gun buy-back campaign took a pair of first-place honors at the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association annual awards convention.Read More
WASHINGTON – More than 1,000 stamp collectors, alumni, faculty and students flocked to Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Md., April 26 to celebrate as the U.S. Postal Service issued a new 27-cent stamped postal card that pays tribute to the bicentennial of the second-oldest Catholic university in the country.Read More
COLOGNE, Germany – A priest of the German-speaking Catholic community in Washington has been recalled to Germany after accusations that, while he lived in Germany, he had sex with young women in his pastoral care.Read More
On April 18, The Sacred Heart School gym and West Room in Glyndon were alive with song, dance, and food. More than two hundred people attended the school’s first Fiesta Latina, which included folk dances by student groups and a Parade of Nations. Students from kindergarten and sixth, seventh and eighth grades dressed in costumes...Read More
VALLETTA, Malta – In an unexpected display of honesty and frankness, five young Maltese men and women spoke to Pope Benedict XVI about their hopes, doubts and fears as well as the contradictions they sense within the Catholic Church.Read More
In my Walter Mitty life, I’m not turning two with Cal Ripken at Camden Yards, or playing the Emperor Concerto with the National Symphony; I’m not even writing the Great American Novel. No, when I imagine a different life it’s as an architect.Read More
DUBLIN, Ireland - Irish religious congregations have offered an additional 348 million euros ($470 million) to compensate victims of abuse in church-run industrial schools over a 40-year period.Read More
This column is the first in a three-part series by Father Lawrence. To concelebrate Mass with Pope Benedict XVI at Nationals Park last week, I had to get out of bed by 4 a.m., a task I do not undertake lightly. But I was sure it was going to be worth it, and it was....Read More
Three years ago, Karen Murphy started to see a rise in bullying – particularly on the Internet – among students at Resurrection-St. Paul School in Ellicott City.Read More
NEW YORK – At Yankee Stadium, transformed into an open-air church April 20, Pope Benedict XVI urged more than 57,000 Catholics to “move forward with firm resolve” in continuing the legacy of faith set in motion by the country’s first Catholics.Read More
APATZINGAN, Mexico - Father Javier Cortes vividly recalls being approached recently with an unusual request by a group of teenagers in this agricultural town 300 miles west of Mexico City.Read More
NEW YORK – Describing himself as “the poor successor of St. Peter,” Pope Benedict XVI thanked Americans for their prayers and love on the third anniversary of his election.Read More