Father Edward B. Hemler wasn’t about to let health problems stop him from giving First holy Communion to the children of St. Mark in Fallston last spring.Read More

WASHINGTON – An overseer of the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, expects the incoming president to fully embrace the $48 billion package to provide treatment and prevention campaigns globally.Read More

OVERLEA – George Bailey has nothing on Pep Perella. Just as the everyman hero of the film classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” discovered all the lives he had touched, Thomas “Pep” Perrella is getting a gauge on just how many men, women and children are behind him.Read More

Seeing himself cast in bronze alongside Pope John Paul II in a new downtown statue brought back a flood of memories for Justin Farinelli.Read More

OXFORD, England – More than 140 Catholic theologians from universities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland called for the church to take serious steps to address the problems of the priest shortage by allowing married priests and women to have more active roles in church ministry and allowing laypeople to help select bishops and pastors, among...Read More

WASHINGTON – A group of Christian and Jewish scholars is calling for the sainthood cause of Pope Pius XII to be put on hold.Read More

In meeting with survivors of the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda, Bishop Denis J. Madden was struck by the inner turmoil endured by so many in the years following the conflict.Read More

Father Leon K. Warczynski, the former longtime pastor of Sacred Heart of Mary in Graceland Park who led efforts to build a new parish school and inspired priestly vocations, died Oct. 19 at Stella Maris in Timonium. He was 91.Read More