On September 18, the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled on Conaway v. Deane, the lawsuit by homosexual couples for the right to marry in Maryland. The law suit said that the state’s law defining marriage as between one man and one woman is unconstitutional. However, the Court of Appeals overturned the lower court’s decision (which...Read More

WASHINGTON – The growing adoption of U.S.-style industrial farming practices worldwide puts too much stress on the planet and deceives people into thinking that the world will be able to keep feeding a growing population, currently 6.8 billion.Read More

ROME – A strong spiritual life supported by reading and reflecting on sacred Scripture can help protect priests from the emotional exhaustion of burnout, said an influential Jesuit journal. In a Sept. 15 article released to journalists Sept. 13, La Civilta Cattolica summarized the results of a recent survey on the presence and causes of...Read More

SAN DIEGO – After a California court Oct. 22 ordered the release of documents from the Dioceses of San Diego and San Bernardino related to past cases of improper sexual conduct of four dozen priests, more than 10,000 pages of material was made public.Read More

WASHINGTON – Priests serving in U.S. mission dioceses say they could benefit most from updates on Catholic thinking and practice – but keep it short, please, they said.Read More

A funeral Mass for Jesuit Father Edwin Hamilton Convey was offered Oct. 23 at Alumni Memorial Chapel on the Baltimore campus of Loyola University Maryland.Read More

MONTCLAIR, N.J. – They’ve traveled a great distance to open doors and touch hearts, one person at a time. Sister Faustine of Jesus and Sister Jeanne Marie, from the Community of the Apostolic Sisters of St. John in Burgundy, France, recently arrived in Montclair to serve as Catholic campus ministers at Montclair State University’s Newman...Read More

Baltimore’s skyline has a bright new beacon of hope.Read More