Towson Catholic High School senior Brittani Perez carefully painted half the white masquerade mask in royal blue, paint specs spattered on her hands. The student’s mask was one of many to adorn a seven-foot Christmas tree which her art class entered in The Festival of the Trees competition over Thanksgiving weekend.Read More
MADRID – With a month to go before half a million young Catholics descend on Madrid, “there are an infinite number of small problems to solve,” said the executive director of World Youth Day 2011.Read More
An alternative to traditional anterior cruciate ligament surgery is becoming more popular because it gives the knee more stability and uses a much smaller incision. The newer approach takes a tendon from a cadaver, which is called aligraft, and uses a double bundle of that tendon to repair the ACL.Read More
WASHINGTON – As the effort to pass the DREAM Act hits its 10th anniversary, churches, synagogues and mosques around the country will devote a September weekend to teaching their congregations about the faith-based reasons to work for its passage.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Of the seven deadly sins, men are more prone to be tempted by lust, while women more often succumb to the sin of pride, the papal theologian said.Read More
A funeral Mass was offered Nov. 27 for Father Robert O’Connell, S.S.J., who at 101 was the longest-lived Josephite priest, one who had served God for 66 years.Read More
PRINCETON, N.J. – As part of a series titled “State of the States,” a new Gallup Poll ranked the top religious states in the United States and found Southern states ranked highest on the list, while several states in the Northeast ranked the lowest.Read More
LONDON – A British cardinal has criticized proposals to allow lesbians to become joint legal parents of children created for them through in vitro fertilization.Read More
I just wanted to tell the Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien how grateful I am that we have him here. I think he is such a positive, strong influence for our church right now. I was just thinking how fortunate we are to have leaders like our current pope and our archbishop. They are both warm...Read More
WASHINGTON – When it became public Feb. 4 that Legionaries of Christ founder Father Marcial Maciel Degollado had fathered a daughter, the order’s former communications director decided he had to apologize for having defended him after sex abuse allegations against the priest first became public in 1997.Read More