VATICAN CITY – Seven weeks after Pope Benedict XVI praised Vatican civil servants for their work in “our little state, from the most visible to the most hidden,” the state unveiled its own Web site.Read More

There was one family from Mount Savage that was skipped over in the Your Parish profile of St. Patrick (CR, Nov. 19). That family of John and Ellen (Daley) Mattingly had 11 children, four of whom became religious, two Notre Dames, one Sister of Charity and one Redemptorist priest. They also have a nephew who...Read More

A very holy Irish Priest once said: “If you want to know what the church believes, watch how the church prays.” Yes, the Bible, creeds and catechisms are important. They give us intellectual concepts about God. They are the fingers that point toward God.Read More

WASHINGTON – Lady Bird Johnson, an Episcopalian, died just after a Catholic priest finished reciting the litany of the saints with her family at her bedside in Austin, Texas.Read More

VATICAN CITY – In a brief document, the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation reaffirmed that the Catholic Church is the one, true church, even if elements of truth can be found in separated churches and communities.Read More

My little cat, Pharaoh, died Oct. 25th. My friend, who is the ‘mother’ of my cats, was with me in Pharaoh’s final agony. His final death-bed cry pierced our hearts. We knew it was time to let him go.Read More

VATICAN CITY — The formal theological dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion will continue and will focus on the relationship between the local church and the universal church, the Vatican announced.Read More

On a warm afternoon in mid-June, Mary Ella Marion sat in her office at Mercy High School, Baltimore, flanked by two of her three children, Maggie, a rising junior at Mercy, and Matt, a recent graduate from Salisbury University. They were wrapping up a morning session from the weeklong Mercy Magic Summer Basketball Camp for...Read More