Despite the reaction they elicit among many football fans and media analysts, a concussion is not a laughing matter, “Got his bell rung” and “dinged” have long been in the sport’s nomenclature.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI is known to the world as the successor of St. Peter, the first pope. But for the next 12 months he’ll be turning the spotlight on St. Paul, the church’s archetypal missionary.Read More
Just a few weeks ago, a disturbing open-air drug market was forming right in front of St. Frances Academy and Community Center on Chase Street. Drug dealers were passing out free samples right next to the St. Frances Convent, and dealers were stashing drugs on the high school’s campus right beneath the statue of the...Read More
Between fasting and holy water, churchgoers in the Archdiocese of Baltimore may want to add another item to their Mass ritual: the liberal use of a hand sanitizer.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Anytime there’s mention of a new Ten Commandments at the Vatican, journalists start salivating. So the buzz was high when a new “Decalogue for the Environment” was promised in early June.Read More
Richard Oles was walking around the campus of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore when his ears picked up precise, metallic clinking sounds emanating from one of the sports practice rooms. Intrigued, the college student peeked inside and was even more amazed by what he saw.Read More
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien said the bishops made a firm stand in the discussion of embryonic stem-cell research at U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ meetings in Orlando, Fla., June 12-14.Read More
WASHINGTON – When Galileo Galilei first turned his simple telescope toward Jupiter, the moon and then the sun nearly 400 years ago, it’s not difficult to imagine how amazed he was.Read More
QUEBEC CITY – Several cardinals from around the world gave the status of church life in their countries and regions at the 49th International Eucharistic Congress.Read More