LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Call it a “Catholic Extreme Makeover.” When parishioners at Christ the King Church in Little Rock heard about Father Udochukwu “Udo” Vincent Ogbuji’s paralysis following a car wreck, they prayed for the priest’s recovery. And when their pastor, Monsignor Francis I. Malone, challenged them to renovate a house in less than...Read More

The sky crackled with thunder, lightning danced and wind howled ferociously as rain covered the land, causing the rivers to overflow into the streets.Read More

NEW YORK – Playwrights Tom Stoppard and Harold Pinter needn’t worry about their names being usurped in posterity’s annals by Karol Wojtyla, the archbishop of Krakow, Poland, who became Pope John Paul II. But there is much to admire in the late pope’s drama, “The Jeweler’s Shop,” currently on view in New York, courtesy of...Read More

LONDON – A British bishop has welcomed a Scouting document that, among other things, allows for Scouts ages 14 and older to be taught about condoms.Read More

The aroma of sizzling steak on a grill may permeate through Maryland neighborhoods mostly in warmer months, but it’s a scent Parkville residents – who live near Bob Delisle’s home – smell all year. The avid outdoor chef and St. Matthew, Northwood, parishioner doesn’t need to dust off his two grills in the late spring...Read More

Regarding “Tuition bill for immigrants levels the playing field” (CR, March 24), documented immigrants deserve a level playing field. Unlawful invaders, of which there are millions in our country, deserve nothing from the United States. The Maryland Catholic Conference is wrong to support these lawbreakers. I’m forced to re-think my financial support to the church....Read More

After learning of 10-year-old St. Joseph, Fullerton, student Xavia Pirozzi’s heart transplant earlier this year, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hampden, fourth grader Kaylea Collavini decided to help. So she developed a fundraising idea for her fellow students to pay money to dress out of uniform for a day. Kaylea’s “Jeans Day” raised $637 for the Pirozzi...Read More

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI offered prayers for at least 150 refugees, including women and children, whose boat sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa after they fled Libya.Read More