What St. Patrick in Little Orleans lacks in numbers, it makes up for in the enthusiasm and close bonds of its people. It’s a tradition that stretches back 150 years when Irish immigrants first erected the little church as their spiritual home in eastern Allegany County.Read More
As the election cycle approaches, the pro-abortion Catholics will trot out their own “Apologia Pro Vita Sua” to explain their voting for a pro-abortion candidate. “It’s only one issue,” “I’m not a single-issue voter,” “What about the unjust war in Iraq?” etc. A recent letter compared the taking of pre-born life to the death of...Read More
WASHINGTON – The U.S. bishops, Catholic Relief Services, Catholic Charities USA, the National Catholic Rural Life Conference and Network, a Catholic social justice lobby, are joining more than a dozen other religious groups in advocating reforms in federal farm policy that could be implemented through the farm bill now working its way through Congress. The...Read More
BEIJING – Catholic clergy who work near Beijing and have not registered with the Chinese government faced restrictions on their work as the 2008 Olympic Games approached.Read More
As it did on most U.S. campuses, the American flag flew at half-staff on the grassy area of Doyle Circle on the campus of College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, April 17 – one day after 32 people were gunned down some 300 miles away at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va. Across the...Read More
VATICAN CITY – Before the speech-giving began at the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East, Pope Benedict XVI offered participants an unusual reflection on the threat of “false gods” that beset the modern world.Read More
Father Roger White, O.F.M. Cap., anticipates a smooth transition to his post as the new pastor of Baltimore City’s Transfiguration Catholic Community.Read More
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – They greet each other as family inside the small chapel at Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria, with warm hugs, a “Comment ca va?” and three kisses on alternating cheeks.Read More
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – A Seton Hall University honors student who was fatally shot at an off-campus party was remembered at an Oct. 6 prayer service as a young woman who had a deep spirituality and a personality that could “light up a room.”Read More
With the start of the 2008-09 school year, Michelle Bussard will once again head to the carpool line at St. Stephen School with five youths piled into her Honda Pilot.Read More
Dina Nagdimunova admits that much of what she learns in her finance textbooks at Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, is forgotten soon after exams. That’s why she thinks it’s important to apply what she studies in class in real-world situations. Ms. Nagdimunova, a 21-year-old senior who was born in Russia, serves as a paid intern...Read More