I once surprised a Lutheran minister who was a good friend of mine when I said that I admired Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran theologian martyred in Hitler’s Germany, so much that I sometimes prayed for his intercession.Read More

Two graduates of Calvert Hall College High School held a press conference Aug. 13 at the Baltimore County Courts Building to release documents pertaining to an allegation of abuse against Monsignor Joseph A. Davies, a priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore who died in 1992.Read More

A funeral Mass for Mission Helper of the Sacred Heart Sister Marie Timmerman was offered Aug. 12.Read More

Dear Target,I hear you’re taking down signs that indicate which toys and bedding are for boys and girls. I never even noticed they were labeled—and I’m sure my children haven’t either.Our sons would walk through fire or save pocket change for months to get the Toy of Their Dreams. No pink signRead More

Irony or ironies, it will be sloth – that crippling disease of the will – that will overturn abortion in our lifetime.Read More

A coach congratulates a player during a Catholic baseball camp in 2014 at Russell Sports Complex in Kent, Wash.  (CNS photo/Stephen Brashear)A few years ago, a family friend from France visited us for a few days, and in an effort to expose him to American culture, we took him toRead More

Art is a gift that springs from life, and thus, according to the author, is a form of giving one’s life for others.Read More

Archbishop Lori celebrated the closing Mass for the Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention in Philadelphia.Read More