Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien figured out a way to fill the pews during a regularly scheduled 8:15 a.m. weekday Mass at Our Lady of Fatima, Baltimore. He showed up.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Opening 2011 with a strong call for religious liberty, Pope Benedict XVI condemned deadly attacks against Christians and announced a new interfaith meeting next fall in Assisi, Italy.Read More
Wherever life has taken him, from a boyhood in Hamilton to studying under the Jesuits to serving as a U.S. Air Force surgeon in South Vietnam and then establishing a medical practice at Franklin Square Hospital, a strong conscience has accompanied Dr. Louis C. Breschi.Read More
VATICAN CITY – An accord designed to guarantee religious rights and freedoms for the Catholic Church in Bosnia-Herzegovina formally went into effect Oct. 25 during a special ceremony at the Vatican.Read More
WASHINGTON –- Violence continued to feed the flow of Christians leaving the Middle East, with church leaders generally agreeing that only peace would solve the problem.Read More
Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Harrisburg will celebrate a funeral Mass on Oct. 24 at the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, for Sister Joan Gormley.Read More
BETHLEHEM, West Bank – Traditional ceramic and wood Nativity scenes from Spain share center stage along with miniature wooden box reproductions from Mexico, an almond-eyed baby Jesus from Thailand and a hanbok-clad Holy Family from Korea at the newly reopened International Nativity Museum.Read More
You likely did not know Marie Rolfes. She was one of those many people who were too great to be famous. She died last month at the age of 93. I had the privilege of celebrating her funeral liturgy.Read More
Gary Lynch is a veteran of the sport of soccer. He has coached for more than 30 years at both the high school and college level and has won close to 90 percent of his games over the years.Read More
VATICAN CITY – A newly expanded compendium of visions of the Virgin Mary shows how the very idea of such apparitions has been met with skepticism and preoccupation within the church, from early Christian times to the present.Read More