AP photo Fourteen years ago, one of the my closest childhood friends, Anthony Jamaal Thomas, was stabbed and killed for his Eddie Bauer jacket coming out of a movie theater in a mall. For a few days after, Anthony was mentioned in headlines across the Washington area and, then, was forgotten as the media movedRead More
Just minutes before she was to have her long golden locks shaved off for charity, 24-year-old Erin Shannon spoke of the words of wisdom her father had given to her.Read More
Last week, I posted a blog titled "The Hunger Games' Teenage Violence Stirs Controversy" that has drawn a lot of interest and many comments. As I said in the post, I had not read the books, which were intended for young adult audiences. Of course, "The Hunger Games" has drawnRead More
October Baby is the movie few people want, but its message can't be pushed to the side.The film, which opens today in nearly 400 theaters across the country, is about a teenage girl, Hannah, who discovers she survived an abortion. She goes on a trip to try and find theRead More
I was talking to a young lady who was studying for a big test in medical school. She had been cutting up cadavers in her class, and the test required that she be able to identify various veins and muscles. She said that the test was so difficult because various tissues look so different from...Read More
Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien expressed disappointment March 23, after learning that the board of directors at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson had recommended to Catholic Health Initiatives that the hospital transfer ownership to the University of Maryland Medical System.Read More