Bishop Denis J. Madden, urban vicar, calls them the “greatest asset any city could have.” They are the hundreds of women and men religious who minister every day in the City of Baltimore – teaching in schools, working in hospitals, running social outreach ministries, praying with the sick, visiting prisoners, caring for the dying, lobbying...Read More

Sometimes a single sentence is worth a 30-day retreat. I was having lunch with two of the finest people on the planet. I won’t mention Theresa and Bernadette by name. Suffice it to say that these two wonderful people have made enormous contributions in the fields of education and medicine. They also love, and rescue,...Read More

For years, Horace Wisniewski faithfully brought Holy Communion to the sick and dying throughout Dundalk. But after a heart attack slowed him down about a year ago, the roles changed. Now the 90-year-old extraordinary minister of Holy Communion relies on others to bring the Eucharist to him.Read More

LIMA, Peru – Around the corner from the health center in Quiquijana, a village in the southern Peruvian Andes, a scenic wall painting depicting a woman in colorful local dress announces the location of the “Mama Wasi,” or “mother’s house.”Read More

After more than five years of planning, the staff and parishioners of five northern Anne Arundel County parishes became the first group to officially present a proposal for clustering – or sharing ministerial duties – to archdiocesan officials.Read More

CONVENT, La. – The haunting lyrics of the spiritual made famous by Louis Armstrong – “Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen/Nobody knows but Jesus” – might be an apt job description for crisis counselors and case managers who daily commiserate with the south Louisiana fishing families harmed by the massive BP oil spill.Read More

After logging hundreds of miles, shaking hands with scores of Catholics and making a pitch for religious vocations at every turn, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien has completed his mission of visiting each of the 151 parishes of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.Read More

WASHINGTON – At what one participant called a “critical juncture in consecrated life,” dozens of religious and Catholic lay leaders gathered in Chicago recently to hash out the next steps needed to attract young people to religious life today.Read More