Amid the business attire, networking and note-taking that marked the Catholic Medical Association’s 77th annual Educational Conference, Patrick Tomeny stood out.Read More
BALTIMORE – In a series of quick votes Nov. 14, the U.S. bishops approved new guidelines for the use of music in worship, English- and Spanish-language rituals for the celebration of weekday Liturgies of the Word, and revised Lectionary readings for Lent.Read More
John Carroll School student Allison Lozinak dreamt big for her senior project. She wanted to bring one of contemporary Christian music’s biggest stars, Matt Maher, to the school’s Bel Air campus for a concert.Read More
What profit a man if he gains on Wall St., but suffers the loss of his soul? Many eyes were on the bail-out of our financial infrastructure, perhaps an appropriate concern for normalcy in a modern material world. However, the true long-term investor may realize that his portfolio should include stocks that appreciate in the...Read More
When the Christmas season approaches, the Advent candles aren’t the only ones that are lit in the home of Mark and Catherine Palmisano. The married couple and their three sons also reverently light a Jewish menorah to honor the days of Hanukkah.Read More
BANGALORE, India – Catholic officials in Pakistan expressed disappointment after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani reiterated there would be no amendment to the country’s blasphemy law, which makes insulting the Prophet Mohammed or the Quran punishable by life imprisonment or death.Read More
They devoted their lives to educating and ministering to others, often in some of the most troubled urban areas of the country. Now the retired and infirmed Oblate Sisters of Providence are getting a state-of-the art retirement facility that will allow others to minister to them.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Many countries’ embassies to the Vatican have a priest on staff to help advise their ambassador on pontifical protocol and all things Catholic.Read More
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