WALKERSVILLE – Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien lifted a pair of gigantic scissors and playfully gave them a few quick snips in the air before cutting a bright red ribbon that officially marked the opening of a new $2.8 million parish center at St. Timothy in Walkersville Sept. 7.Read More

Approximately one year after its launch, the Mid-Atlantic Catholic Schools Consortium will gather educational leaders from across the region and around the country for a Sept. 19 summit designed to help shape the future of Catholic education in the Mid-Atlantic.Read More

SAN FRANCISCO – Calling recent nationally broadcast comments by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “in serious conflict with the teachings of the Catholic Church,” Archbishop George H. Niederauer of San Francisco invited the Catholic lawmaker “into a conversation with me” about church teaching on abortion, the beginning of human life and the formation of conscience.Read More

WASHINGTON – The University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education program has been placing college graduates as volunteer teachers in Catholic schools since 1994. That means the current participants were in elementary school when the program started and could have been taught by ACE teachers.Read More

Question: My friend’s mother has been diagnosed with lung cancer. The doctor said her mother will probably only live for about six more months. He suggested they arrange hospice care. My friend and her family are distraught. What do you suggest?Read More

VATICAN CITY – The world’s wealth and resources do not belong to a select few, they also belong to the poor, Pope Benedict XVI said as he urged people to aid the needy and protect the environment. “Christ is present even in the poor so they must never be insulted,” abused or deemed worthless, the...Read More

Sharon Kilby couldn’t hold back her tears. As she stood with her daughter, Sherry Ruckowicz, and 3-year-old grandson, Devin, in the back of St. John the Evangelist in Hydes, pride and memories overwhelmed her.Read More

Since officially becoming Transfiguration Catholic Community in 2004, the southwest Baltimore parish has held Mass in all three of its churches. Beginning in January, members of the parish will attend regular Mass only at St. Jerome at Scott and Hamburg streets, and future uses for St. Martin and St. Peter the Apostle remain uncertain.Read More