QUEBEC CITY – Nearly 25,000 Catholics from around the world poured through the narrow streets of Quebec City, accompanying the Eucharist in an outpouring of religious fervor absent from this city for at least half a century.Read More
There is no shortage of summer fun for children around the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Looking to the nearest recreation council, nature center, or museum can bring to light camps offering anything from outdoor sporting activities and arts and crafts to the experience of being studio artists or environmentalists.Read More
PERTH, Australia – The Australian bishops have undertaken a nationwide newspaper advertising blitz, inviting lapsed Catholics to return and asking for forgiveness for any hurt the church caused individuals in the past.Read More
WASHINGTON – Passionist Father Rick Frechette, the Haiti-based director of medical services for Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos International who served at St. Joseph Passionist Monastery Parish in Irvington in the 1970s, was at home in New Jersey with his dying mother when the magnitude 7 earthquake hit Port-au-Prince Jan. 12.Read More
What is God whispering to you? That was the question Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien posed to a group of youths at St. John, Westminster, June 14, during a Mass that reunited many who saw Pope Benedict XVI during his April visit to the U.S.Read More
WASHINGTON – Catholic Relief Services was preparing for “thousands and thousands” of dead and injured people in the wake of the most devastating earthquake to strike Haiti in two centuries, said Karel Zelenka, the agency’s country representative.Read More
WASHINGTON – The majority of citizens of Myanmar are Buddhist, but that’s not stopping Catholics and Muslims in Miami from trying to help them.Read More
TRENTON, N.J. – In scores of news photographs documenting David Goldman’s legal quest to bring his young son home to New Jersey from Brazil, U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., was a frequent presence.Read More
Because I write my columns a few weeks in advance, it’s impossible to stay current with all the events of life. However, from the evening of May 12 to the morning of May 21, I was a patient at St. Joseph’s Medical Center. A new blood clot had apparently formed in my right leg, and...Read More
After Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf of Mexico, 17-year-old Cory Grimes joined a mission group of area Catholics to restore two storm-damaged homes in New Orleans.Read More
Rudy Vargas IV (CR, Dec. 24) would have us add another vile word to the modern lexicon, “Americanize.” While putting forth his argument for cultural diversity, he seems to forget the Americanization of this country is one of the reasons so many people from various cultures have desired to live and work here.Read More