WASHINGTON – The Washington Archdiocese expressed regret that a District of Columbia bill to legalize same-sex marriage was approved despite church opposition and without protecting religious freedom.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The degradation of the environment is a pressing moral problem that threatens peace and human life itself, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More
Father William J. O’Brien III knows every minute crack in the wall, every burned-out light bulb and every fading panel on the vivid stained-glass windows of his stunning church.Read More
OSLO, Norway – U.S. President Barack Obama, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 10, said extremists who “kill in the name of God” have a “warped view of religion” that is incompatible with the purpose of faith.Read More
“Is your book like Scott McClellan’s?” An interviewer asked me that the other day, thereby suggesting a possible parallel between the former White House press secretary’s insider tell-all volume about the Bush administration and my new book about the issue of secrecy in the Church.Read More
WASHINGTON – The economic recession may have a “silver lining” in terms of its effect on U.S. marriages, according to a leading marriage expert.Read More
Father John C. Kemper, S.S. can’t help but feel humbled when he works as the director of the St. Mary’s Spiritual Center and Historic Site on Paca Street in downtown Baltimore.Read More
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Jennifer Munoz had a job interview recently, but couldn’t keep the appointment because she didn’t have the money to put gas in her car. Instead, she bought a gallon of milk and food for her two young children.Read More
IJAMSVILLE – If cooking a turkey dinner is a way of putting faith into action, the youths of St. Ignatius of Loyola have voted to act with their feet and their paring knives.Read More
Spotting an altar server who was slightly distracted before the start of a recent Sunday morning Mass, Gus Moreno gently tapped her on the shoulder and gestured toward four fellow servers who had formed a circle in a small vesting room at St. John in Westminster.Read More