Maybe it’s because I’m reading more Catholic blogs, but this year I noticed a few bloggers mentioning marking their doorways with chalk on the Feast of the Epiphany for a house blessing. I had never heard of this tradition. Around here we can use all the blessings we can get. AndRead More

  For more than a year I sang the same two lullabies to Daniel. Night after night, I sang “Toora Loora Loora” and “Away in a Manger.” Then our little guy turned 3. And he decided he was going to pick his bedtime songs. He still wants “Toora Toora,” as he callsRead More

Sister Kathy Dougherty serves as a chaplain at a women's detention center in Maryland.Read More

Kameron Williams first had a basketball in his hands at age 2.Read More

Sister Agnes Teresa Meany spent many years in health care.Read More

I felt honored to be quoted in the Radio Mass of Baltimore Newsletter. (You can tune in to the Mass each Sunday on WBAL – AM 1090 from 9:30 a.m. to10:00a.m.)Read More

  It was just an ordinary Sunday in January. It was also the Feast of the Epiphany. And there was a big Ravens game that day. John and I went to a late Mass and then headed to the grocery store. Everyone else was watching the Ravens-Dolphins game, so we had aRead More

The holiday season is over and millions of students and educators across the country have returned to school.   Students and educators from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. returned to school today, 20 days after a shooting which killed 26 people. Students and staff went to a different schoolRead More