WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s first year in office was packed with major news of interest to the world, but there was much to report about his interactions with faith leaders and on other topics of religious interest.Read More

The Little Sisters of the Poor at St. Martin’s Home for the Aged, Catonsville, have welcomed new leadership both at the home and the provincial level. The home’s new mother superior, Sister Alice Marie Monica, L.S.P., arrived in Baltimore from the Little Sisters of the Poor Our Lady of Hope residence in Latham, N.Y. Her...Read More

QUEBEC CITY – Christians “are hardly yet able to speak of a common table” when it comes to Communion, the Canadian Council of Churches president told a few hundred people at the 49th International Eucharistic Congress.Read More

WASHINGTON – A bit of the Second Vatican Council is influencing at least one segment of the Washington government scene these days.Read More

Verdan “Buzz” Wiedel was serving as a radio operator on a fighter bomber during the Second World War when an otherworldly experience set him on the path to the diaconate.Read More

Ann Veilleux isn’t worried about her size 16 clothing going out of style. That’s because soon, the 50-year-old nurse will be buying smaller sizes.Read More

QUEBEC CITY – When people pause and question the purpose of their lives, they “yearn for a spiritual answer,” said Slovakian Cardinal Jozef Tomko at the opening Mass of the 49th International Eucharistic Congress.Read More

CATONSVILLE – When Judy Wall was hoping to adopt a child overseas with her husband, Michael, she often dreamed about a little girl wearing yellow and white. Soon after the parishioners of St. Mark in Catonsville received word that a baby had been located in Vietnam, the adoption agency showed them the child’s photograph. Sure...Read More