Since the unfortunate day New York passed a bill to redefine marriage, national and local media have poured unabated attention – not to mention pressure – on Governor Martin J. O’Malley to thrust his political support behind this issue. I felt it a serious responsibility to counterbalance or offset “politics as usual” with a reminder...Read More
Anna Santana faces many bills at the start of each month, not the least of which being the tuition payment at The Catholic High School of Baltimore for her daughter Samantha.Read More
WASHINGTON – Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl said he hopes Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the nation’s capital next spring will deepen the faith of Catholics in the Archdiocese of Washington and give them new energy.Read More
NEW YORK – Screen legend Spencer Tracy (1900-1967), who won one of his two Academy Awards for portraying a priest during Hollywood’s golden age, played Catholic clergymen three other times, but was never comfortable with it, reveals a forthcoming book about the star.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican said Bishop Richard Williamson’s statement of regret for denying the extent of the Holocaust does not meet the Vatican’s demand that he publicly recant his position.Read More
BALTIMORE – The U.S. bishops began consideration Nov. 12 of a document that rejects politics based on “powerful interests, partisan attacks, sound bites and media hype” and calls instead for “a different kind of political engagement.”Read More
St. Gregory the Great Parish in Baltimore collected more than 40 guns through a buyback program sponsored by The Catholic Review July 16 and continuing through July 19 as The Catholic Review went to press.Read More
WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of Milwaukee as archbishop of New York and accepted the resignation of Cardinal Edward M. Egan, who has headed the archdiocese since 2000.Read More
Jason Evert, a national speaker on chastity and the author of eight books, will give several talks in the Baltimore area Dec. 9 through Dec. 14.Read More
ST. LOUIS – At 18 years old, Katie Rhoades found herself homeless. On top of that, she was dealing with alcohol addiction and the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder from rape and sexual trauma. A friend suggested exotic dancing as a way to make some “quick cash” with the hope it would get her on...Read More
The tendency among greybeards is to glorify the past at the expense of the present, but even those who remember the Baltimore Catholic League at its inception in 1971 acknowledge that the boys’ basketball circuit has enjoyed no better decade than the current one.Read More