When anti-Catholic prejudice was still rampant in the South during the early 1950s, Sister Marietta Russell was knocking on doors and sharing her faith in the small towns of South Carolina.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Catholics and Muslims must learn more about each other’s religions if they want to get along better, said the Vatican ambassador in Egypt and former president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.Read More
Although November was established as the month we celebrate National Black Catholic History, it is also the month we celebrated National Native American Heritage.Read More
HAVANA – At a meeting with Cuban bishops and an open-air Mass, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state and the highest-ranking Catholic Church representative to visit Cuba in the past 10 years, said he hoped his visit would help advance church-state relations.Read More
Pro-life leaders are vowing to fight a measure passed Nov. 23 by the Baltimore City Council that imposes new requirements on four pregnancy resource centers in the city.Read More
One year after the announcement that Our Lady Queen of Peace School, Middle River, would close, the classrooms are full – of preschoolers and infants.Read More
Some years back, a book came out titled “14,000 Things to Be Happy About.” This compendium of gratitude simply listed thousands of items – from ice cream sandwiches to extra-inning baseball games – that made the author thankful, and inspired others to reflect along similar lines.Read More
VATICAN CITY – In a new set of rules encouraged by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican is requiring dioceses to be more meticulous and objective when they prepare local sainthood causes.Read More
SEOUL, South Korea – The Catholic Church in South Korea has lost four priests to the Anglicans in recent years, with marriage cited as the most important reason.Read More
For seniors looking to live an active lifestyle without the responsibility of maintaining their own houses, there are a wide variety of independent living communities in the Baltimore area that offer many different features.Read More
JERUSALEM – The first question friends in the Gaza Strip ask each other when they meet these days is, “Do you have electricity?” “Three days a week we have no electricity for eight hours straight, depending on the area,” said Omar Shaban, project manager for the Gaza office of the U.S. bishops’ Catholic Relief Services....Read More