PHILADELPHIA – Pennsylvania has become the latest state to approve the use of a “Choose Life” specialty license plate. The plates were approved last November and became available for purchase in January. The cost per plate is $40. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation receives $20, and the other $20 is an annual membership fee in...Read More

PHILADELPHIA – When Nancy Frankowski walks to church, she is confronted with scaffolding covering much of her beloved Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul so that workers can refresh the exterior of Philadelphia’s 147-year-old Catholic structure.Read More

Marylanders are taken to hospital emergency rooms in need of care every day and doctors throughout the state are ready to help save their lives, but that task might be impossible without blood donors. Parishes throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore are calling on the faithful to pull up their sleeves and literally give of themselves...Read More

I don’t look at the Catholic Church the same anymore.Read More

More than 600 Scouts, parents, troop leaders and family members attended the 61st annual Archdiocesan Scout Mass March 4 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore. This was the third time Michael Shindledecker, 13, from Pack 801, St. Mark, Fallston, has participated in the Scout Mass....Read More

When Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien was installed as the spiritual shepherd of the Archdiocese of Baltimore nearly four years ago at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, he made a simple pledge.Read More

Samuel Chairs has always been generous supporting worthwhile causes – especially helping the poor and strengthening education. But the parishioner of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ellicott City recently decided to step it up a notch and encourage philanthropy among his seven children by donating $1 million to Catholic organizations through the Catholic Family...Read More

I am most grateful to Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, who has given me permission to reprint a recent article of his. The second part appears this week. I am very well aware of the contentious nature of this issue among our people. I hope that Archbishop Gomez’ distinctive approach would be helpful...Read More