VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI entrusted the cause of world peace to the martyrs of World War II concentration camps, including a German priest executed for his hostility to the Nazi regime.Read More
While Archdiocese of Baltimore officials discuss the future of Catholic schools, Church of The Ascension in Halethorpe believes its 80-year-old educational institution is vital to the community’s future.Read More
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien figured out a way to fill the pews during a regularly scheduled 8:15 a.m. weekday Mass at Our Lady of Fatima, Baltimore. He showed up.Read More
Loyola Blakefield drama teacher Christian Garretson has long admired his school’s commitment to summer service trips for students, but wanted to take it a step further.Read More
WASHINGTON – Kevin Ryan, the new president and CEO of Covenant House, is no stranger to the pressing needs today’s troubled youths are facing.Read More
VATICAN CITY – An accord designed to guarantee religious rights and freedoms for the Catholic Church in Bosnia-Herzegovina formally went into effect Oct. 25 during a special ceremony at the Vatican.Read More
One only has to read the newspaper or listen to the news reports to capture the sense of anxiety that the financial turmoil has created in our society. The feeling of uncertainty, the apprehension of not knowing what tomorrow brings and the sense of insecurity has affected every aspect of our daily lives. Our Catholic...Read More
Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Harrisburg will celebrate a funeral Mass on Oct. 24 at the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, for Sister Joan Gormley.Read More
Josephite Father Edward J. Mullowney was just a young lad when in 1929 the Vatican became a sovereign city state through the Lateran Treaty made between Pope Piux XI and Italy’s Fascist prime minister, Benito Mussolini.Read More
This week was history in the making. A black man, whose father was from Kenya and whose mother was a white woman from the United States, became the 44th president of the United States – Barack H. Obama. His mother and maternal grandmother raised him. I am sure that they would have been very proud...Read More