ANNAPOLIS – A business tax credit benefitting public and nonpublic schools received a major boost March 3 when Gov. Martin J. O’Malley threw his public support behind the long-sought measure.Read More
WASHINGTON – The statewide Diocese of Burlington, Vt., is preparing to sell its headquarters building and a now-closed camp to help pay for claims and judgments stemming from clerical sexual abuse.Read More
“The eyes are the window to the soul.” The thought can be traced back to poet Cicero who wrote before Christ. For me, windows are a kind of eyes for my spiritual life.Read More
One year ago this month, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien stood in front of school and parish leaders to lay out stark numbers facing Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.Read More
With the beginning of the end of the small group adult series Why Catholic? now here, Sharon Bogusz is not getting wistful. Instead, she’s hopeful about the future of Catholicism.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Getting a new generation involved in ecumenism will require the churches to show them how efforts to build church unity fit in with young people’s concerns for a broken world, a young Presbyterian minister told a Vatican symposium.Read More
After more than 10 years as pastor of St. John the Evangelist, Hydes, Father William F. Franken began to feel as if parishioners were like relatives.Read More
MUNICH, Germany – A German archbishop who joined other church leaders at the recent World Economic Forum in Switzerland has praised government and business leaders for being open to religious voices during the current global economic crisis.Read More
Coming off the heels of its most successful Archbishop’s Annual Appeal collection ever, the Archdiocese of Baltimore is once again hoping people will respond generously to support a range of programs and services helping those in need.Read More
The Handel Choir of Baltimore, with Melinda O’Neal conducting, will perform a concert Jan. 31 at 4 p.m. at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Govans. The concert is a benefit for the Murphy Initiative for Justice and Peace, which honors the legacy of the late Bishop P. Francis Murphy.Read More