WASHINGTON, D.C. – Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for U.S. Military Services ordained one of Baltimore’s own as the next auxiliary bishop of the military archdiocese during a Sept. 8 Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.Read More
Music from two newly restored pipe organs at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Homeland, will fill the vast church with regal sounds Oct. 28, as Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien blesses the dual organ system featuring 7, 231 pipes ranging from 32 feet wide to the width of a pencil.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to travel to Great Britain to personally beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman will give him an opportunity to highlight Cardinal Newman’s teaching about the relation between faith and reason, the role of conscience and the place of religion in society.Read More
As parents study prospective colleges for their kids, they’ll devour information about Catholic campus life, but their student might be headed in a different direction.Read More
The Resurrection Dance Theater of Haiti will perform in Towson Sept. 9, at 7 p.m., at Central Presbyterian Church. The professional troupe includes members of the St. Joseph family of orphanage-like facilities outside of Port-au-Prince, St. Joseph’s and Wings of Hope.Read More
Concerned that Baltimore women in crisis pregnancies aren’t receiving the help they need to carry their unborn babies to term, several regional prolife groups have joined forces to establish “Pro-Life Initiative Baltimore.”Read More
DAVENPORT, Iowa – Boosting morale in a diocese deeply wounded because of the abuse of children by some clergy in past decades, Catholics in the Davenport Diocese pledged $22 million in a capital campaign that succeeded despite the worst economic conditions in decades.Read More
Some 150 clerics and lay people from several dioceses in the Mid-Atlantic states traveled to the Wilde Lake Interfaith Center in Columbia Oct. 10 to learn how to better serve their growing Latino congregations and to effectively unite the English and Spanish-speaking communities.Read More
The Baltimore Catholic League, which has lost two marquee programs over the last two years, announced Aug. 25 the addition of two new members, giving the fabled boys’ basketball league a new lease on life.Read More
After an immigration reform bill stalled in Congress in June, experts predict that it may take another two years before any meaningful attempts at fixing the situation will see the light of day.Read More
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In letters to Pope Benedict XVI and to St. Edward Parish in Nashville, Father Joe Pat Breen has retracted and apologized for statements made in an Internet video and subsequent media interviews that Catholics are not obligated to follow teachings of the Catholic Church as defined by the pope and bishops.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The recent change at the helm of the Vatican newspaper marks an effort to revive a publication that has gone from glory days to malaise.Read More