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

Catholic high schools can’t take their Catholic identity for granted, according to Richard O’Hara, president of The John Carroll School in Bel Air.Read More

EMMITSBURG – Peering through a glass display case, 9-year-old Gloria Whitfield was impressed with an old letter that rested on a 19th-century wooden writing desk.Read More

BALTIMORE – The U.S. bishops in a new statement are calling teenagers to be disciples by performing acts as simple as assisting with liturgical ministries, giving up the cost of a movie ticket to support the poor, or visiting people who are alone.Read More

A French émigré priest, Father John DuBois, was sent by the first U.S. bishop, John Carroll, to bring liturgy and Catholic education to the “wilderness” of Maryland known today as Frederick and Emmitsburg. The priest planted a cross on “Mary’s Mountain” in 1808 to mark the site he envisioned for a future university and seminary.Read More

VATICAN CITY - For the first time in half a millennium, the doors of the Vatican Museums were open to the public at night.Read More

In February, a religious portrait of African-Americans was released. Its major reference was the “Pew Forum U.S. Religious Landscape Survey.” The report’s overview discusses research that indicates that “while the United States is generally considered a highly religious nation, African-Americans are markedly more religious on a variety of measures than the U.S. populations as a...Read More

Henry Hyde, retired Republican Congressman from Illinois, was one of three Catholics to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, during a Nov. 5 White House ceremony.Read More