Exactly 169 years after the first Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur arrived in Cincinnati to establish schools in the U.S., the sisters from the Ohio Province officially welcomed members of the congregation’s Maryland Province as the two provinces completed a merger Oct. 31.Read More

VATICAN CITY – It makes little sense for the Catholic Church to complain about ethical failures in the media if it is not paying attention to educating future communicators in ethics, said Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.Read More

Last week’s Catholic Review related the return to the Church after many years of the best-selling novelist Anne Rice – make that Anne O’Brien Rice (no relation)! Married to an atheist in her late teens and now 66, she described most of her adult life in terms of “despair, guilt and search for meaning and...Read More

NEW ORLEANS – The scourge of addiction to pornography, especially among men, has created “a sexual Katrina” that is destroying families, church and society, a prominent speaker on sexual integrity told a recent gathering of men in New Orleans.Read More

I was so pleased to read the article by Father Joseph Breighner (Oct. 15, CR) about Monsignor Aloysius Schwartz. It was very appropriate to read about Father Al’s life and sacrifices for the poor in Korea, the Philippines and Mexico on a weekend when we celebrate missionaries. He is highly regarded in the countries where...Read More

Babies cry less when they hear the sound of the harp. That’s not a mothering tip but an observation of nurses in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, on days when harpist Cathy Maglaras wheels in her 12-pound Celtic instrument to strum tenderly in the company of incubated preemies.Read More

Gov. Martin J. O’Malley signed a number of bills into law May 13, including House Bill 1111/ Senate Bill 614 establishing a Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment and Senate Bill 238/ House Bill 75 requiring nonpublic schools to receive a report when one of their students is arrested for a serious offense. Both measures were...Read More

After a punishing winter storm buried Baltimore in mounds of snow several years ago, Angelo M. Boer knew Our Daily Bread soup kitchen would need some help. With its normal corps of volunteers shut in, the director of development and communications for Catholic Charities set out at 6 a.m. to help prepare the day’s free...Read More