It’s a hot afternoon in late August in Baltimore, and high-schoolers in casual summer attire and their parents are getting a tour of Loyola University Maryland.Read More
Strange that The Catholic Review would give Douglass Kmiec (CR, April 2) the space to present an ambiguous defense of President Barack Obama’s stem cell policy in the same issue that our Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien warns us that the current administra¬tion is “on track to live up to projections that it would be one...Read More
A year ago I was named by the Holy Father a member of the Congregation for Catholic Education (and Seminaries), surely an honor and a privilege.Read More
WASHINGTON – When the third edition of the English-language version of the Roman Missal is implemented at Advent, it will mark the continuing evolution of the eucharistic liturgy that began in the earliest days of the church.Read More
VATICAN CITY – In a letter to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Pope Benedict XVI urged leaders from the world’s wealthiest nations to stabilize financial markets without excluding families and the poor.Read More
PHILADELPHIA – St. John Neumann, Philadelphia’s fourth bishop who is enshrined in a glass casket under an altar at St. Peter the Apostle Church, was clad in a new set of vestments, just in time for his Jan. 5 feast day.Read More
Last week, the East Coast was shaken by an earthquake, followed by Hurricane Irene barreling her way up the Eastern Seaboard. Some folks on social networks wondered if plagues of locusts were coming next.Read More
WASHINGTON – A U.S. District Court judge’s decision giving 17-year-olds over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill known as Plan B “will put minors’ health at greater risk,” according to a pro-life official of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.Read More
Catholic schools in our country have their roots in the rich soil of the Baltimore church. Here in Baltimore, nearly 200 years ago, the seeds of the apostolate of Catholic education were sown, cultivated and nurtured by such visionary women as St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and Mother Mary Lange. The legacy of these two women...Read More
WASHINGTON – Although the new General Instruction of the Roman Missal has eliminated the use of the word “song” from the General Instruction promulgated just eight years earlier in favor of the word “chant,” don’t be so quick to ditch those hymnals.Read More
JERUSALEM – English and Canadian bishops visiting the Holy Land said they see possibilities for change in light of recent peace initiatives, but Palestinians and Israelis still are not in a good situation.Read More