For the past six months, St. Patrick in Cumberland has been dealing with the loss of our pastor. We have been experiencing many different feelings because of this loss. However, this experience has not been all negative.Read More
PHILADELPHIA – At a July conference on faith, politics and the quest for the common good, 800 Catholics from around the nation ratified a platform based on Catholic social teaching and aimed at capturing the attention of both political parties this election season.Read More
When Monsignor Richard Cramblitt, temporary administrator of Church of the Immaculate Conception in Towson, called Father Joseph F. Barr to congratulate him on his appointment as Immaculate Conception’s new pastor, his first words were: “Welcome home.”Read More
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien challenged Baltimore pilgrims at World Youth Day to be a light of information when they return from Sydney, Australia.Read More
LONDON – In the silence of St Joseph’s Convent in Leeds each morning, Sister Catherine dresses herself in a gray habit. She fixes a black veil on her head and fastens to her waist a cord tied into three knots – representing the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience – and she slips her...Read More
WASHINGTON – Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington closed its 80-year-old foster care and public adoption program in the District of Columbia so the agency would not have to violate church teaching by licensing same-sex couples as foster or adoptive parents.Read More
It’s a fact of female life – most women love handbags and shoes. To divert from the standard “bingo in a basement” event, the young-spirited Baltimore City Division I Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians (LAOH) are hosting a September event called “Bags to Riches” to profit Sisters Academy of Baltimore.Read More
“Wii Fit” puts a lot of “wee!” into exercise, but it’s only a first step toward establishing a healthy fitness regimen, according to Jennifer Zeltwanger, a physical education teacher at St. John Regional Catholic School in Frederick.Read More
SYDNEY, Australia – World Youth Day officially kicked off July 15 with an opening Mass celebrated by Sydney Cardinal George Pell before an estimated 140,000 people.Read More
ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Allentown Bishop John O. Barres has taken a new approach to fostering vocations to the priesthood: making sure young men personally receive a call.Read More