Receiving chemotherapy by intravenous infusion can take between four and eight hours. That’s a long time to be sitting in a chair, not to mention the psychological aspect, so Dr. Mark Krasna, medical director of the Cancer Institute at St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, set out to find a chair that was both comfortable and...Read More

Catholic Charities is mailing applications to those on the waiting list for what will be its 22nd senior-housing community, Our Lady of Fatima II in Baltimore, which is scheduled to open in January.Read More

As 2008 begins, the pastor of St. Vincent de Paul, Baltimore, will order all makeshift tents used by the homeless in the park adjacent to the church to come down.Read More

I’m sorry so many of our Catholic faithful feel so burdened by the upcoming changes in the Missal. We should be looking at these changes as opportunities to grow in our faith. Is there any correlation in increased Mass attendance the past 40 years using the current missal, or the singing of some of those...Read More

When Father Gerard Francik recently interviewed a 19-year-old man who was thinking about becoming a priest, the archdiocesan vocations director asked him to talk about his prayer life.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The apostolic visitations of four Irish archdioceses, Irish seminaries and religious orders in response to the scandal arising from sexual abuse of minors by clergy officially began Nov. 11, the Vatican said.Read More

ROMEOVILLE, Ill. – For 30 years the Chicago-based National Center for the Laity has been helping lay Catholics respond to the Second Vatican Council’s call to them to change the world through their daily activities and regular responsibilities.Read More

I wonder if separating one’s faith from one’s work is Catholic. Apparently Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (CR, Oct. 28) thinks it is. He said as a lawyer he would uphold an intrinsic evil (i.e., abortion) if the evil was “constitutional.”Read More