CHICAGO – On Oct. 30, at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in a Chicago neighborhood known as “Back of the Yards,” Auxiliary Bishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of Chicago celebrated a Mass for victims of violence. He read dozens of victims’ names and met with their family members and loved ones.Read More
Re “The Common Good” by Father Peter J. Daly (CR, March 12), I have lived my life with the attitude of looking out for the next guy and believe most people do the same. Saying that, I have to agree with CNBC commentator Rick Santelli and the so-called risk-taking commodities traders.Read More
The pastor of St. Leo church in Little Italy has been removed from ministry by his religious order and stripped of his faculties to function as a priest.Read More
As winter snow lay on the ground, two horses pulled a carriage to the front of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland Jan. 19. They carried the flag-draped coffin of William H. Torbit Jr., a Baltimore City police officer who was shot and killed several days earlier and whose life was to be...Read More
Just before he took the Millennium Falcon into an asteroid field in the “The Empire Strikes Back,” movie character Han Solo was told his slim probability of survival.Read More
A Catholic Review staff writer, Chaz Muth, will travel to the Dominican Republic, Nov. 26-30, to bring readers first-hand accounts of conditions there, especially among the poor.Read More
St. Joseph Medical Center has a new president-CEO. The Towson hospital announced Aug. 12 that Charles W. Neumann will assume the post Aug. 23, succeeding Jeffrey K. Norman.Read More
Our elected officials in the Maryland General Assembly have been asked to consider many difficult and controversial issues since the Legislature convened in January, with several more to come before the session ends in mid-April.Read More
I object very strongly to the cartoon (CR, Oct. 25) on page 11, which shows a “scientist” brushing off God. This perpetuates the stereotype that science opposes religion, a total reversal of the reality of Christianity for many centuries, since the time of St. Augustine.Read More
When Marimar Trejo is surrounded by a million young people at World Youth Day in Madrid Aug. 15-23, she will not only represent the Archdiocese of Baltimore, but thousands of young Hispanic immigrants to the U.S. who can’t travel because they lack documentation.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican is considering the preparation of a major document on new media and their implications for the church’s communications strategy.Read More