DETROIT – U.S. troops should withdraw and let Iraqi factions fight it out, the bishop for most Iraqi Catholics in the United States said June 19.Read More
Saying the U.S. immigration system is broken, Baltimore City pastors called for its reform during a news conference Jan. 12 at St. Vincent de Paul parish in Baltimore.Read More
Two weeks after Maryland’s Catholic bishops unveiled their June 6 pastoral letter on caring for the sick and dying, more than 3,000 people in 28 states requested copies of the 35-page document.Read More
Last spring, our Holy Father announced the designation of a Year for Priests (June 19, 2009 to June 19, 2010), a time, he said, “to deepen the commitment of all priests to interior renewal for the sake of a stronger and more incisive witness to the Gospel in today’s world.”Read More
When Alex Radzius walked out of St. Alphonsus, Baltimore, after Mass on a recent Sunday morning, he noticed the building across Saratoga Street where he attended school in the 1950s is primed to become up-scale condos for future city dwellers. “I see it as a good thing,” the St. Alphonsus parishioner said. “It’s going to...Read More
FORWARD OPERATING BASE GERONIMO, Afghanistan – The Marines at this base like to say that every day is Groundhog Day, referring to the Bill Murray comedy in which a TV weatherman awakens each morning to find he is reliving the same day of his life over and over again.Read More
“Retirement” isn’t in Father Paul A. Reich’s vocabulary. A Marianist priest for 50 years, the 78-year-old associate pastor of St. Joseph in Sykesville said he loves his ministry as much as ever and he has no plans of slowing down. “There’s always something to do once you’re ordained,” he said with a smile. “I’ve never...Read More
The Cancer Institute at St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, has announced it will participate in a pilot program to extend the reach of National Cancer Institute (NCI) research and state-of-the-art treatment into more states, cities and towns.Read More
WOODBRIDGE, N.J. – James H. Carrigan rose from a pew at St. James Church, picked up a collection basket and joined a team of ushers striding up the aisles.Read More
WASHINGTON – The apostolic visitation of U.S. religious communities of women continued to move forward as 2009 came to a close with plans being drawn up for visits to congregations by official representatives of the church to begin in the spring.Read More