WASHINGTON – When the U.S. bishops meet in November, they will debate and vote on how Catholics should participate in the political process, what Catholic high school students should learn in religion classes and how to best ensure that liturgical music is both doctrinally sound and pleasing to the ear.Read More
Woodmont Academy students in Cooksville devoted Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday to a day of apostolic service, performing works that benefitted the school community and a school in El Salvador.Read More
Need an interesting speaker? The Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary and University offers a roster of faculty members who speak to local church and community groups.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican and some Catholic thinkers are urging businesses to not only employ ethical policies within their companies, but to become dedicated to bringing economic justice to the wider world.Read More
Staying astride an up-to-2,000-pound bucking, kicking, twisting bull has been described by some as the “the most dangerous eight seconds in sports.”Read More
The 10 parishes in Harford County and the nearby Baltimore County parish of St. Stephen, Bradshaw, are planning how best to allocate not just priests, but the directors of religious education, youth ministers and pastoral associates who are in short supply.Read More
The bible tells us that Jesus went often into the desert to pray to his heavenly Father. Might we not also believe his intent was to listen, to hear the Voice of God?Read More
MONROE TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Rabbi Leon Klenicki, a longtime Jewish voice on Catholic-Jewish relations, died Jan. 25 at his home in Monroe Township. He was 78 years old. No cause of death was immediately reported.Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – When he gave Communion to “two strangely dressed persons” Oct. 7 at Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco, Archbishop George H. Niederauer said he did not realize they were members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group that has “long made a practice of mocking the Catholic Church.”Read More
WASHINGTON – The headline on the introduction to a new report on the generation of people ages 18-29 encapsulates its conclusions as “the peculiar profile of millennials on abortion.”Read More