ANNAPOLIS – A bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Maryland is effectively dead for the current legislative session, after Del. Joseph Vallario of Prince George’s County asked that it be recommitted to the House of Delegates Judiciary Committee March 11. The move came at the end of a passionate and lengthy debate on the floor of...Read More

The first principle in public funding of scientific research is to fund ethical proposals. The second is to fund the most promising proposals. Two years ago, Maryland abandoned both.Read More

Growing up in New York, Redemptorist Father John Murray loved marching with his father in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Now that he uses a wheelchair, Father Murray is about to promote the Saint of Ireland in a way that may prove more powerful than anything he could have done on foot in a...Read More

BALTIMORE – To fill a gap in existing prayer books, the U.S. bishops Nov. 11 overwhelmingly approved a liturgical service in English and Spanish for blessing children in the womb.Read More

Juan Pablo Perulta, 22, of St. Clement I parish in Lansdowne, arrived at the 32nd annual Social Ministry Convocation at Baltimore’s Seton Keough High School with hope.Read More

“Look at that accomplishment. When you face the Lord, that’s the kind of thing you want to talk about.”Read More

ANNAPOLIS – Her voice filled with emotion, the mother of a woman who died while undergoing an abortion implored a Maryland Senate committee March 2 to pass tighter regulations of abortion clinics.Read More

“Spinner,” everybody aboard the B-17 bomber called him, for they had seen him working the beads of his rosary between his fingers again and again.Read More