More than 1,000 are expected for the annual Archdiocesan Youth and Young Adult Pilgrimage in Baltimore April 16. A special invitation is extended to young adults 18-35 to join their high school counterparts in the four-mile walk, billed as “Jesus – Way, Truth & Life.”Read More

I am struggling with a moral quandary when it comes to “stink bugs.” My humble, cluttered room at the rectory seems to be a magnet for these strange creatures. As many as five or six a day may buzz around me, or the lights, or simply walk across my floor. Kind friends have suggested that...Read More

PHILADELPHIA – As a lay teacher, three priests and a former priest of the Philadelphia Archdiocese prepared for arraignment on charges of sexually abusing or failing to protect children, Cardinal Justin Rigali placed two retired priests on administrative leave pending a more thorough investigation.Read More

Monsignor Stuart W. Swetland, moral theologian and philosophy professor at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, will give a lecture at three parishes April 8 focused on “End-of-Life Issues: What the Church Teaches on Euthanasia.”Read More