MEXICO CITY – A Catholic priest in southeastern Mexico–- known for his outspoken defense of undocumented Central Americans arriving from neighboring Guatemala – was detained for several hours and threatened by soldiers and state police.Read More
WASHINGTON – Calling the protests against President Barack Obama’s planned commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame “unseemly and unhelpful,” Bishop John M. D’Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., advised Catholics not to attend such demonstrations.Read More
Baltimore’s Loyola University Maryland and Notre Dame of Maryland University and Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg were all celebrated in the Sept. 13 edition of the U.S. News & World Report’s 2011-2012 “America’s Best Colleges” survey.Read More
FENGXIANG, China – A Chinese priest who was injured in a church property dispute with the local government said that narrating the part of Jesus during a Palm Sunday Mass helped him to connect his suffering to Jesus’ suffering.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI said his April 15-20 visit to the United Nations and the United States was an opportunity to give – and to receive – a witness to the power of hope and faith.Read More
Mary Bosley began her job as a coordinator for religious education at St. Clement I in Lansdowne less than a month ago. With kindergartners through sixth graders under her guidance, she has to meet many families, many of whom come from Hispanic backgrounds.Read More
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien said he is “disappointed and bewildered” by the decision of University of Notre Dame officials to honor President Barack Obama with an honorary doctorate at this year’s graduation ceremony.Read More
The sights, smells and sense of quiet from the days he spent searching the burning Pentagon for bodies after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack remain vivid in Bishop F. Richard Spencer’s mind.Read More
In celebration of the Year of St. Paul, the Archdiocese of Baltimore is sponsoring a pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. April 25.Read More
Richard Horwitt is a very busy guy. The 64-year-old retiree works three days a week driving an adult day care center van. He tutors English for the Ignatian Volunteer Corps (IVC) at Catholic Charities’ Hispanic Apostolate in Fells Point. He’s involved with the Service, Justice and Life Commission in his parish, St. Joseph, Sykesville. He’s...Read More