News

Archbishop O’Brien to bless restored Cathedral organs

Music from two newly restored pipe organs at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Homeland, will fill the vast church with regal sounds Oct. 28, as Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien blesses the dual organ system featuring 7, 231 pipes ranging from 32 feet wide to the width of a pencil.
Read More

Fatherhood and Purpose:

We are coming up on Father’s Day, a day of celebration of fathers. If you know like I know, Christians have been celebrating Father’s Day for more than 2,000 years. St. Joseph showed us the rewards gained by being a faithful, devoted and obedient father. Jesus showed us how to be a good son and...
Read More

Pope, Catholic leaders welcome election of new Russian patriarch

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI said he learned “with joy” of the election of Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad – a prelate he has met three times – as the new patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Read More

Mass attendance low for college students

As parents study prospective colleges for their kids, they’ll devour information about Catholic campus life, but their student might be headed in a different direction.
Read More

Vatican hopes postponed event marks end to illicit ordinations in China

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican said it hoped the postponement of an illicit episcopal ordination in the diocese of Hankou would mark the end to all ordinations without papal approval in China.
Read More

‘The Game’ brings out the best

For senior players like Mary McKay and Jordan Bateson, there is little need to explain “The Game.”
Read More

Prolife Initiative launched in Baltimore

Concerned that Baltimore women in crisis pregnancies aren’t receiving the help they need to carry their unborn babies to term, several regional prolife groups have joined forces to establish “Pro-Life Initiative Baltimore.”
Read More

Grandparents give eternal gifts

A grandfather was playing on the floor with his two-year-old grandson. Some change fell out of the grandfather’s pocket. The little grandson picked the money up and handed it to his grandfather. “This is yours,” he said. The grandfather handed the money back to the child and said: “Put this in your piggy bank.”
Read More

Vatican launches video news channel on YouTube

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican launched a video channel on YouTube that will feature news coverage of Pope Benedict XVI and major Vatican events.
Read More

Hispanic Ministry Conference educates leaders

Some 150 clerics and lay people from several dioceses in the Mid-Atlantic states traveled to the Wilde Lake Interfaith Center in Columbia Oct. 10 to learn how to better serve their growing Latino congregations and to effectively unite the English and Spanish-speaking communities.
Read More

WORTHY Calvert Hall student has bright future

TOWSON – Seventeen-year-old Christopher Sutton’s life seems as rich as the music coming from the saxophone he has played for the past three years.
Read More

Mount de Sales retains spot on top 50 list

When visitors walk into Mount de Sales Academy, Catonsville, there’s a lived-in feeling that immediately strikes them. History and tradition converge with the present.
Read More
1 1,293 1,294 1,295 1,296 1,297 1,759
En español »