Coming off the success of more than 50 guns turned in at a West Baltimore church in September, but concerned that gun violence in the city remains high, St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church will sponsor its eighth “Gun Turn-In Day” Dec. 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the church at 1542 N....Read More

VATICAN CITY — The bishops of Switzerland said the country’s ban on the construction of minarets, the Muslim prayer towers, represents an obstacle to interreligious harmony.Read More

When Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien referred to the rector of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen as “the indomitable, irrepressible Monsignor Robert Armstrong,” hundreds of parishioners interrupted the archbishop’s Nov. 15 cathedral homily with applause.Read More

Father Gerard Francik, Father Richard B. Hilgartner, Father Michael S. Triplett and Monsignor Arthur W. Bastress will celebrate a Mass for Thanksgiving at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 26 at the Shrine of St. Alphonsus in Baltimore, prior to the annual Turkey Bowl between Calvert Hall College High School and Loyola Blakefield.Read More

A funeral Mass for Vincentian Father Paul Michael Murphy was offered Nov. 16 at St. Joseph in Emmitsburg. Father Murphy, in residence at St. Joseph since 2007, suffered a fatal heart attack Nov. 12.Read More

SEOUL, South Korea - The late Archbishop Paul Kinam Ro of Seoul and six other Catholics are named as Japanese collaborators during World War II in a new encyclopedia.Read More

VATICAN CITY – The most important figure in the fall of the Berlin Wall was former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who allowed the revival of political freedom throughout Eastern Europe, a former papal aide said.Read More

For 25 years, Monsignor Robert Armstrong has called the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen home. He's been connected to the church for much longer than that - for its full half-century. He sang in the choir for the dedication Mass in November 1959, was ordained to the priesthood in the cathedral and a quarter-century ago...Read More