A very holy Irish Priest once said: “If you want to know what the church believes, watch how the church prays.” Yes, the Bible, creeds and catechisms are important. They give us intellectual concepts about God. They are the fingers that point toward God.Read More

Richard V. Siejack was installed as state deputy of the Maryland State Council Knights of Columbus during a July 5 Mass at St. John the Evangelist in Hydes.Read More

The proud observance of July 4 is enriched by our growing awareness of the extent to our dependence on one another, as individuals and as a group. The other big current jawbreaker, globalization, reinforces our mutual need for one another. This is not a new phenomenon, but the news of the day drives it home...Read More

My little cat, Pharaoh, died Oct. 25th. My friend, who is the ‘mother’ of my cats, was with me in Pharaoh’s final agony. His final death-bed cry pierced our hearts. We knew it was time to let him go.Read More

VATICAN CITY — The formal theological dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion will continue and will focus on the relationship between the local church and the universal church, the Vatican announced.Read More

SAN FRANCISCO – Less than a week after couples of the same sex began marrying under California law, Archbishop George H. Niederauer of San Francisco released a statement explaining that church teaching about marriage stresses its “unique place in God’s creation.”Read More

WASHINGTON – Less than a third of U.S. Catholics participate regularly in selected pastoral or community activities at their churches, though nearly 80 percent say they pray at least weekly, according to the latest report from the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.Read More

An ongoing study of the causes and contexts of sexual abuse by priests delves into a broad assortment of factors, including societal trends, treatment approaches over the decades, the character of seminaries in different generations and even comparisons of when abusive behavior began in relation to ordination.Read More