Any pastoral agent working among Spanish speakers quickly encounters a phenomenon very distinctive of Hispanic religious practice – popular religiosity. Included in this broad category would be processions, novenas, religious plays and even dance.Read More
When you drink a cup of coffee, you can make a difference. That’s the message that Maria Louzon, a 16-year-old parishioner at Church of the Resurrection, Ellicott City, is trying to impart, even though she’s not a coffee drinker.Read More
ROME – Criminals thinking about trafficking women and children for prostitution at the world’s largest sporting events in 2010 will have to face the combined force of hundreds of women’s religious orders.Read More
Jerry Smith of Hamilton pampers the pickup truck he purchased a short time ago with careful attention to maintenance and cleaning to ensure the vehicle lasts.Read More
VATICAN CITY – A pilgrimage of U.S. mission directors left Rome with a sense that their efforts are making a difference in the universal church, participants said.Read More
WASHINGTON – The U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations has set up a Web site to mark the Year for Priests, a worldwide celebration from June 19 of this year to June 19, 2010.Read More
Images of Our Lady of Perpetual Help have been rendered in oil paint, watercolor and wooden carvings, but none has looked as sweet as the one just finished by 25 fifth graders at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Ellicott City.Read More
The pressure was on for Steve Ryan to produce a great best man speech at the wedding of his good friend, Michael Williams. Mr. Williams had been Mr. Ryan’s best man more than a year earlier – delivering a stellar speech that guests remembered as funny, witty and touching.Read More
While Cita Brown calls the United States home, she has not forgotten the poorest of the poor in her native country, the Philippines. The parishioner of St. Ursula, Parkville, and her husband, Douglas, are actively involved with FAPI, the Foundation for Aid to the Philippines Inc.Read More
DUBLIN, Ireland – Pope Benedict XVI was visibly upset to hear June 5 of the abuse suffered by thousands of Irish children in the care of religious congregations, reported the archbishop of Dublin, Ireland.Read More