When Chelsea Tolley first started visiting women with developmental disabilities a few years ago at a group home operated by Catholic Charities’ Gallagher Services, the outgoing teen had a hard time making a connection with Joan. An elderly woman with bad knees, Joan refused to get in on the games, discussions and other activities led...Read More

Regarding “USCCB group explains direct, indirect abortion” (CR, July 1), is it really Catholic doctrine that the fetus’ life must be saved and the mother sacrificed, as in case one of the story? Or is this the overly rigid interpretation of ultraconservative theologians? My understanding of Catholic doctrine is that where there is a choice,...Read More

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Despite opposition from the Catholic Church and family groups, Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage.Read More

The Cardinal Gibbons School, Baltimore, mourns the loss of yet another member of their school community – 49-year-old former head basketball coach and athletic director Bob Flynn died of a massive heart attack in his Catonsville home Jan. 12. Flynn was rushed to St. Agnes Hospital, Catonsville, where he later died, just a stone’s throw...Read More

WASHINGTON (CNS) – A pro-life official of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops criticized House passage Jan. 11 of a bill that would expand federal funding of stem-cell research that involves the destruction of human embryos, but expressed confidence that an expected presidential veto of the “misguided and unethical legislation” would stand. Richard Doerflinger, deputy...Read More

LIMA, Peru – A Peruvian judge gave a British missionary a temporary stay on a government order expelling him from the country.Read More

Tom Rose began to hear rumors July 5 that 17-year-old John Crowder had been shot in a Northeast Baltimore City yard.Read More

On Dec. 8, two minutes into the second half of a 52-35 non-conference basketball victory over Havre de Grace High School, senior Briana Grap hit a three-point field goal giving her 1,143 career points and the career scoring record for women at Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School, Middle River. Grap has twice been...Read More