This year, at age 59, Ronnie King attended his first Ash Wednesday Mass – and enjoyed it.Read More

On Saturday we were sitting and eating egg rolls in a gym full of families who have adopted children from China. A decorative yellow lion costume was sitting on the stage several yards away from us, a kung fu artist was warming up as he pounded on a drum, andRead More

So how did this happen? How did it get to be Lent in the second week of February?Read More

Temptation can be a funny thing. I don’t mean to make light of it, believe me. After all, we don’t have to look any further than our original parents – Adam and Eve – to see how the lure of temptation can separate us from God. And, the Gospel reading fromRead More

Pro-life groups held a vigil and press conference Feb. 11 near the Germantown office of abortionist Dr. LeRoy Carhart, offering prayers for a 29-year-old woman who, along with her unborn baby, died, allegedly after undergoing a late-term abortion last week at the upper Montgomery County abortion facility.Read More

A funeral Mass for Daughter of Charity Sister Maria Rosa Dorr was offered Jan. 12.Read More

To help dioceses, parishes and other groups pray for Pope Benedict XVI and for the selection of a new pope, the Secretariat of Divine Worship of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has provided liturgical and musical resources as well as specific prayersRead More

52 youths and adults from 16 parishes in the Archdiocese of Baltimore received a leadership, service or youth award at the Mother Mary Lange Awards Banquet Feb. 8 at Martin’s West in Woodlawn.Read More