“On the edge” (CR, Sept. 6) touts a color photograph of Rep. Paul Ryan holding a copy of his budget proposal and then proceeds in a paragraph to explain his rationale behind it while egregiously omitting any mention of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops who “issued an unusually strong letter in April which stated...Read More
You might think we’d go to a hot air balloon festival and come home talking about the hot air balloons. Our boys came home from the SARC Hot Air Balloon Festival raving about horses and fire engines. Still, if you’ve ever known preschool-aged boys, you can probably understand. It’s not that theRead More
We went to Mass as a family again this morning.And even though there were several moments when the closing hymn seemed farther off than Christmas, we survived.We didn’t have to take either of our sons out to the narthex. And we didn’t have any close calls where we almost brokeRead More
I disagree with most pundits, and perhaps, most Americans. We deserve our politicians and our laws. Candidates feed us a fictitious narrative that Washington is broken (this much is true), but the American people are exceptional. They tell us: send me to Washington, and I’ll fix it by restoring honesty,Read More
I had the privilege of attending the African Eucharistic Congress last month in Bethesda, representing St. Bernardine Parish and the archdiocesan Office of African American Catholic Ministries. The first day marked the 18th Conference of African Clergy and Religious who live and minister in the United States, a day of unity and support.Read More
It was every parent’s worst nightmare. Their teenage daughter had attempted suicide, and now the doctors and specialists at the hospital were working hard to resuscitate the girl.Read More
After injuring himself in a basketball tournament in Florida, David Gately was hobbling up and down the stairs of his home, eliciting snickers from his son, David Jr., one of the players he coaches at Calvert Hall College High School in Towson.Read More