When St. Frances Academy boys’ basketball coach Mark Karcher looks at Wayne Sparrow, he sees a model for his own sons.Read More

“Is your book like Scott McClellan’s?” An interviewer asked me that the other day, thereby suggesting a possible parallel between the former White House press secretary’s insider tell-all volume about the Bush administration and my new book about the issue of secrecy in the Church.Read More

Father John C. Kemper, S.S. can’t help but feel humbled when he works as the director of the St. Mary’s Spiritual Center and Historic Site on Paca Street in downtown Baltimore.Read More

NOTRE DAME, Ind. - Professors from other institutions came to the University of Notre Dame to criticize both the way the university handled its invitation to President Barack Obama as 2009 commencement speaker and Obama’s commencement address itself.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, said the ecumenical situation really is that of a “glass half full,” and he held his water glass up to emphasize the point.Read More

Spotting an altar server who was slightly distracted before the start of a recent Sunday morning Mass, Gus Moreno gently tapped her on the shoulder and gestured toward four fellow servers who had formed a circle in a small vesting room at St. John in Westminster.Read More

CHICAGO – Nine years of prayer, work and faith culminated May 31 when curtains parted in the sanctuary of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Chicago to reveal an iconic monstrance of Our Lady of the Sign, Ark of Mercy.Read More

When Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien referred to the rector of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen as “the indomitable, irrepressible Monsignor Robert Armstrong,” hundreds of parishioners interrupted the archbishop's Nov. 15 cathedral homily with applause.Read More