A dozen health care professionals from Good Samaritan Hospital, headed by orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Harpal S. Khanuja, will be among a contingent of 56 from Operation Walk Maryland that were to head to Peru Oct. 9.Read More
WASHINGTON – William Ford, the late brother of Maryknoll Sister Ita Ford, was honored in a Capitol Hill event Jan. 6 for his 28-year pursuit of justice for his sister and three other U.S. churchwomen murdered in December 1980 in El Salvador at the height of the nation’s civil war.Read More
CHICAGO – A new book by constitutional scholar Paul Benjamin Linton assesses the legal status of abortion in each of the 50 states, concluding that more than half the abortions performed in the U.S. would remain “constitutionally protected” if Roe v. Wade were overturned.Read More
VATICAN CITY – If farmers in Africa had greater access to fertile, arable land safe from armed conflict and pollutants, they would not need genetically modified crops to produce food, said the head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.Read More
Phil Scholz arrived late for the fall semester at Loyola College in Maryland, but not without some experiences that he can incorporate into his combined major of global studies and communications.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will look back on 2010 as a challenging year for the priesthood and a time of trial for Christian minorities.Read More
ANNAPOLIS – Clergy members criticized the death penalty as immoral in testimony before a commission that will make recommendations to state lawmakers by year’s end.Read More
It’s Advent again, my friends. This is a time for us to prepare ourselves for the return of Jesus. One might ask, aren’t we to be doing that daily? I agree that we should. We get caught up in everyday living, however, and this takes us away from what we as Catholic Christians should be...Read More