VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will make his first visit to the synagogue of Rome in the fall, the city’s Jewish community announced.Read More

When he became a priest in 1982, Father Patrick M. Carrion assumed he would serve in maybe five parishes in his lifetime. He was wrong.Read More

Julian Bower’s letter, “Why non-Catholics in Catholic schools” (CR, Feb. 26), raises a legitimate point, if properly understood. Given the extreme financial challenges facing our parochial and other Catholic schools, should we be “subsidizing” the education of non-Catholics who, in many cases, wish to escape underperforming public schools by enrolling in a Catholic school? After...Read More

Many critics of Pope Benedict XVI’s action lifting the excommunication of the four schismatic bishops of the Society of St. Pius X, including Bishop Richard Williamson, were uninformed about the pope’s duties to the Catholic Church. The unity of the universal church is the pope’s innate and paramount responsibility. The revocation of the excommunication to...Read More

Three executives at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson have taken administrative leave while the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services investigates a physician group and its financial relationship with the hospital.Read More

The following is from a letter that was sent to Woodmont Academy parents:Read More

As Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore began the Lenten season by receiving ashes on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien encouraged them to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation as well.Read More

When Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien asked local businessman Frank Bramble to chair a blue-ribbon committee to save Catholic schools, he told him to find the keenest minds to make up the panel.Read More