Four priests serving in the Archdiocese of Baltimore share their meaningful memories of Christmas.Read More

Sure you’ve read "The Night Before Christmas" and "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas," but here are 12 other children’s titles worth sharing this Christmas season. My list goes from light and fun to deep and spiritual. I believe Christmas should be all of those things, but our focus should alwaysRead More

  The Vigil Mass for the Fourth Sunday of Advent at Saint Francis de Sales Church, Abingdon (PHOTO by Patti Murphy Dohn)------- "Let the clouds rain down the Just One, and the earth bring forth a Savior.”Morning Prayer Antiphon for the Fourth Sunday of Advent  Introduction:In the last Advent days leading up to Christmas,Read More

   It's almost Christmas...  (Photo by Patti Murphy Dohn)   "If you have too much to do, with God's help you will find time to do it all." — St. Peter Canisius (1521-1597), whose feast we celebrate today, December 21 Great advice from today’s saint, especially during this hurried week      Saint Peter Canisius (1521-1597)...Read More

Jim Mullis, John Chasse and about eight others have spent some 800 hours this year making wooden toys for children.Read More

If the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops needs stock footage of baptisms and first Communions, we have it, as my Mary just transferred to DVD some 40 hours of 8-millimeter video we taped in the 1990s, when 20 of our children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews were in the formative stage.Read More

A funeral Mass for Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister M. Salvator Cramer was offered Dec. 17.Read More

Father Michael J. Ruane has been St. Michael’s leader for a quarter century.Read More