Individual parishes throughout Baltimore City have taken steps to reduce urban violence, but collectively the pastors believe they can crusade against brutal crime.Read More
ANNAPOLIS – Scared, unmarried and alone, Tracy Tiernan didn’t think she had many options when she became pregnant. She went to a Severna Park abortion clinic and dealt with her “problem” in the way society told her was okay.Read More
KINSHASA, Congo – A group of Congolese bishops has denounced the international community’s tolerance of increasing hostilities in eastern Congo, which they called a “silent genocide” against the civilian population there.Read More
Like others, hospitals are trying to lessen the impact they have on the environment. From reducing medical waste to composting food scraps to overhauling the entire laundry, hospital officials are trying to find greener ways to treat patients.Read More
As the House of Delegates prepares to vote on a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, Catholics will join others in the faith community for a March 11 prayer vigil in support of traditional marriage.Read More
BALTIMORE – The Catholic Campaign for Human Development cut off funding earlier this year to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, for reasons unrelated to the organization’s current troubles over voter registration and partisan politics, reported the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ subcommittee on CCHD.Read More
After five years as pastor of St. Paul in Ellicott City, Father Michael Jendrek is taking on a new role as the pastor of St. Ignatius in Ijamsville. Archbishop Edwin O’Brien made the appointment, which is effective April 5.Read More
Organizers of the first Mid-Atlantic Congress for Pastoral Leadership planned for March 8-10, 2012, in Baltimore said the aim of the gathering will be to offer pastoral leaders “the best of Catholic pastoral practices, religious education/catechesis and theology.”Read More
The pipe organ plays heavenly music once more at the newly reopened Provincial Chapel of the Sisters of Bon Secours at Bon Secours Spiritual Center in Marriottsville.Read More
Holy Orders: A Sacrament at the Service of Communion The memory of Saturday, June 26, 2004 will be with me forever as a special day. It was the day of my priestly ordination at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. I remember promising respect and obedience to Cardinal Keeler and his successors as Archbishop of...Read More
VATICAN CITY – When Catholic business leaders and experts gathered for a recent Vatican meeting, they were asked to take part in an unusual thought experiment.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Although he said he had been shocked by Pope Benedict XVI’s 2006 speech in Regensburg, Germany, the grand mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina said he felt the best way to respond was to seek a dialogue.Read More