Prayer has always marked Christian life. The evolution of Christian prayer spans centuries and bears the character of countless faithful whose hearts and voices call to the one who is at once, the source of their yearning and the goal that they seek.Read More
The Archdiocese of Baltimore is offering several opportunities for teens and young adults to learn more about the call to religious life and other vocations during a series of free summer camps and special events.Read More
Bagels and Tastycakes. Likely the one and only time these words will ever appear together in a column of mine, these staples of households in New York and Philadelphia were on the line recently as Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Cardinal Justin Rigali placed a friendly wager on who would win the 2009 World Series.Read More
Standing in the sunlight in front of Father Kevin Brooksbank’s home parish of St. Joseph, Cockeysville, longtime friend Father Timothy Donahue remarked that he could “stand here all day” and tell stories about the priest he befriended on the first day of class at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Roland Park 13 years ago.Read More
During this Black Catholic History Month, it is fitting to acknowledge a woman marked by faith and who is not afraid to allow God to use her in the ministry of social justice within the judicial arena.Read More
Father Kevin W. Brooksbank, a 35-year-old associate pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary in Baynesville, died May 25 at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson after battling a viral infection and kidney failure.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has denied that the delay in publishing the apostolic constitution on Anglicans seeking admission to the Catholic Church has been caused by an internal Vatican debate over admitting married priests.Read More
WASHINGTON – A retired Australian bishop who has been asked by several U.S. bishops to cancel his book tour said he stands behind his critique of authoritarian and sexual abuses in the church but does not want a battle.Read More
The size of the first graduating class of Sisters Academy of Baltimore, Lansdowne, is the same size of some Catholic families. Although the 10 girls are not all Catholic nor are they sisters, their connection over the past four years since the school opened has been like a family, more distinctively – a sisterhood.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will join hundreds of thousands of pilgrims traveling to northern Italy in 2010 to see the Shroud of Turin, which many believe is the burial cloth of Christ.Read More
VATICAN CITY – In a clarification approved by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican said its 2005 document prohibiting the admission of homosexuals to the priesthood applies to all types of seminaries.Read More