On behalf of the directors, staff and members of The Cardinal Newman Society and the more than 367,000 people who signed our petition opposing Notre Dame’s honor for President Barack Obama, I would like to publicly thank Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien for his prayerful witness for a strong Catholic identity on Catholic campuses. In anticipation...Read More

Frederick Mayor William J. Holtzinger (fourth from left) issues a proclamation declaring May 25-31 St. John Regional Catholic School Fair Week May 21. Receiving the proclamation from Mayor Holtzinger, are: Fair chair David Hood (right), with son Jarrett (fifth-grader), and Fair co-chair Cindy Kaarid (second from left), with daughters Carmen (2008 graduate) and Kristina (third-grader)....Read More

Richard J. Dowling, the former executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference, will receive the Della Strada Award from the Ignatian Volunteer Corps June 11.Read More

St. Jane Frances School, Pasadena, students depart the starting line during the Race for Education May 20. Students are sponsored for each lap and the money raised will go to support and enhance the school’s curriculum.Read More

Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien reads to Immaculate Conception School, Towson, students during his visit May 20. The archbishop read to kindergartens from a book about Mary, mother of Jesus. The visit coincides with the church’s celebration of Mary in the month of May.Read More

Go home and prepare to die. That’s what Mary Ellen Heibel’s doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington told her May 11, 2004, after they discovered that the cancer that had attacked Heibel’s esophagus in 2003 and then a lymph node later that year had spread throughout her body.Read More

When will Catholics be truthful to themselves? Re the letter “Why did Bush have our blessing?” (CR, May 14), let us be clear about the Notre Dame scandal. It is not the invitation of President Obama to speak at Notre Dame that is the problem; it is the conferring of an honorary degree that has...Read More

Monsignor Robert J. Jaskot, director of the ArcRead More