COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – A religious sister who entered the convent in the era of World War I and Prohibition died just six days shy of her 106th birthday.Read More
LIMA, Peru – Late last year, a 15-year-old girl was locked up for 24 days with adult men in a police holding cell in Abaetetuba, Brazil, where she was raped repeatedly and burned with cigarettes and lighters.Read More
WASHINGTON - The Archdiocese of Washington marked the first feast day of Blessed John Paul II in a special way, as Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl dedicated the archdiocese’s new Blessed John Paul II Seminary in Washington Oct. 22 with a Mass in the seminary’s chapel.Read More
About 50 young adult ministers from across the archdiocese came together May 17 for a meal, prayer and conversation – in two languages. The bilingual Young Adult Contact Meeting was a first for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, which last year hosted English and Spanish versions of the same meeting.Read More
In an effort to encourage more parishioners to register their children at Holy Family School, Randallstown, Father Andrew S. Mohl, pastor, has announced a significant drop in the school’s tuition.Read More
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The first lady of Haiti and the next president of Catholic Relief Services had an exchange Oct. 25 that went directly to how CRS is responding to the basic needs of the most impoverished nation in the Western Hemisphere.Read More
Paulist Father Isaac Thomas Hecker was “a real-life saint like you and me,” Cardinal Edward M. Egan of New York said Jan. 27, describing the founder of the Paulist Fathers.Read More
SUNLAND PARK, N.M. – The compact car lifted a trail of dust as it traveled slowly along the 18-foot-tall chain-link fence, attracting the attention of the U.S. Border Patrol agent sitting in his green and white SUV.Read More
Catholic health care providers need to stand up and defend their right to practice medicine in a way that’s consistent with their religious convictions, according to several speakers at a symposium on conscience rights held May 9 at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson.Read More
True, some so-called “holidays” on the modern-day calendar are Hallmark induced, fed by commercialism without historical significance to support their meaning. This is not so with Valentine’s Day, a centuries-old tradition dating back to the Middle Ages, its romanticism enhanced by one English poet’s observance of God’s flighty creatures.Read More