Laura Vesely remembers her parents’ excitement about attending the papal Mass when Pope John Paul II visited Baltimore in 1995. It didn’t seem fair that she was left behind to watch it on television. But, then again, she was only in elementary school at the time.Read More
Students in Catholic schools within the Archdiocese of Baltimore performed better than the national average on standardized test scores in every age group tested, according to data released Sept. 10 by the archdiocese.Read More
Spring really is “bursting out all over.” The death of the winter to the new life of spring is indeed a wonderful time to celebrate the death of Christ and now his new risen life in this Easter Season.Read More
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s pledge to continue the ban on the use of federal funds for abortion and to maintain conscience protections for health care workers in any health reform legislation was welcomed by two officials of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the president of the Catholic Health Association.Read More
Calling Pope Benedict XVI’s April 15-20 visit to the United States a moment of “renewal” for the Catholic Church in this country, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien said the pope has given Americans much to ponder and pray on in the coming weeks and months.Read More
WASHINGTON –The Legionaries of Christ have initiated a number of reforms since publicly acknowledging Feb. 4 that the order’s founder, Mexican Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, fathered a child, two U.S. Legionaries priests said in a letter to members of the order’s lay association, Regnum Christi.Read More
NEW YORK – On his first trip to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI achieved three objectives that could be considered critical to the pastoral future of the American church.Read More
NEW YORK – On Fridays and Saturdays, Daryl Henricksen, a Protestant, sings a cappella, in Hebrew, at the historic Park East Synagogue in New York. On Saturday evenings and Sundays, he’s a member of the mixed adult choir and the cantor for four Masses at Resurrection Catholic Church in Rye, N.Y.Read More
Father Leo Patalinghug is not the kind of guy who steps down from a challenge. The 39-year-old priest is a former national full-contact stick fighting champion, a black belt in tae kwon do and an 80s break dancer who can still bust the moves with the best of them.Read More
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Archbishop Evariste Ngoyagoye of Bujumbura, Burundi, came to the Conference on the Future of Catholic Peace-building with a story of Catholic engagement that brought about peace in Burundi. He left with a renewed sense of the vigilance necessary to maintain peace and justice in his country.Read More
WASHINGTON – A vote to permit the ordination of homosexuals in committed monogamous relationships for the United States’ largest Lutheran denomination may provoke a rift among its members and leaders.Read More