Anyone who needed indication that all is not lost with the youths in Baltimore City would have gotten their fair share of reassurance at a church in northwest Baltimore recently.Read More
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
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
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI asked world leaders to work calmly and seriously to control the spread of nuclear weapons “in the prospect of their complete elimination from the planet.”Read More
After an immigration reform bill stalled in Congress in June, experts predict that it may take another two years before any meaningful attempts at fixing the situation will see the light of day.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The recent change at the helm of the Vatican newspaper marks an effort to revive a publication that has gone from glory days to malaise.Read More
FARGO, N.D. – Noting that the cost of subsidizing the local college seminary program had reached $100,000 per student because of low enrollment, Bishop Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo announced that the diocese would discontinue the program at the end of the 2010-11 academic year.Read More
A joyous crowd of about 2,000 people filled the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland Oct. 1 to celebrate the installation of Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien as the 15th archbishop of Baltimore.Read More
The Catholic Review (April 15 and 22) has discussed the defeat of the BOAST bill in the Annapolis legislature; it would have benefited non-public school children. The bill was never voted on by the entire House of Delegates, but was killed in committee.Read More
Is Pope Benedict XVI re-Italianizing the Roman Curia? The question has percolated around Rome in recent months as a string of Vatican appointments left Italian prelates in high places.Read More