Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien has appointed Father Kevin A. Mueller, a Baltimore area native who spent the last two years at St. Mary in Hagerstown, as the new pastor of Church of the Holy Apostles, Gambrills.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
A funeral Mass was held for Deacon Arthur L. Micozzi, one of the founding members of St. Isaac Jogues, at his longtime parish in Carney June 23.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
ROME – Rome diocesan officials have denied Hollywood producers permission to film the prequel to “The Da Vinci Code” inside its churches in Rome.Read More
In last week’s column I shared my ‘near-death’ experience from pulmonary embolisms – blood clots that broke off from a larger clot in my leg and traveled to my lungs. As I explained last week, a blood clot in the leg is known as DVT – Deep Vein Thrombosis. Two hundred thousand people die each...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
HOUSTON – Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston told archdiocesan employees Sept. 17 that in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike his “major preoccupation right now” is the number of people who are lacking food and water and facing “difficulties with gasoline and lack of power.”Read More