MADRID, Spain – Spain’s Catholic bishops are urging church members to protest abortion legislation that would allow girls as young as 16 to terminate pregnancies without parental consent.Read More
WARSAW, Poland – Catholic Church leaders have been working to head off a possible conflict about pastoral jurisdiction over the estimated 1.5 million Polish migrants in the United Kingdom.Read More
A funeral Mass for Dr. Frank J. Ayd Jr., a distinguished psychiatrist and world leader in medicine who was dedicated to the Catholic Church, was offered March 24 at St. John the Evangelist, Hydes.Read More
CBS correspondent Byron Pitts, a graduate of Baltimore’s St. Katharine School and Archbishop Curley High School, will be doing a story on literacy on CBS Sunday Morning Oct. 4 from 9 to 10:30 a.m.Read More
WASHINGTON – In the pouring rain March 19, Franciscan Sister Marie Lucey addressed several dozen protesters at a rally near the White House, pleading for an end to U.S. involvement in the Iraq War.Read More
PORTLAND, Ore. – A deal reached by the city of Portland, the local public school district and the regional mass transit company offers free bus rides to high school students in the city - but only if they attend a public school.Read More
SPOKANE, Wash. – Jesuit Father Robert J. Spitzer, president of Gonzaga University, announced March 17 that he plans to leave his post in July 2009 and will work with the school’s board of trustees to initiate a transition in leadership at the Jesuit-run university.Read More
Virginia E. “Ginny” Dauses, the campus minister at St. Mary’s High School in Annapolis, will receive the Culture of Life Medal of Honor Oct. 4 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland, where Cardinal William H. Keeler, archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, will celebrate the Respect Life Mass at 11 a.m.Read More
At the beginning of Lent, I was sent a moving account of the recent funeral procession of a young American soldier, which took place near his hometown in the South. The most striking section read as follows:Read More