In the same week Matthew D’Adamo was laid off after nearly a decade as a graphic designer with The Baltimore Sun, he and his girlfriend of three years broke up. It was a devastating one-two punch that left the lifelong artist reeling more than a year ago.Read More
MIAMI – Pardon the yawn, but that is how Cubans in Florida reacted to the news of Fidel Castro’s resignation as president of Cuba. “It’s a different dog with the same fleas,” said Monsignor Pedro Luis Perez, pastor of San Lazaro Parish in Hialeah, using a colloquial Spanish saying, “Es el mismo perro con otro...Read More
As a critical election in Southern Sudan draws near, Sudanese Catholic leaders are appealing to the United States and Western nations to speak out more strongly against violence that could plunge the African nation back into a full-scale civil war.Read More
Inclusionary housing. Destruction of the environment. Elections in Kenya. The death penalty. No matter what the issue, whenever a voice is needed to speak out for justice and peace, it’s there – thanks to the Murphy Initiative for Peace and Justice.Read More
WASHINGTON - A priest who oversees a Catholic ministry to people who make a living from the sea said consumers should know that shrimp in Texas has not been tainted by the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and urged them to support the local seafood industry.Read More
Del. Eric Bromwell of Baltimore County has withdrawn a bill that Catholic leaders feared would have devastated parishes, schools and ministries had it become law.Read More
WASHINGTON – When President George W. Bush and Pope Benedict XVI meet in April in Washington, they will continue discussions begun during Bush’s 2007 visit to the Vatican on the two leaders’ “common commitment to the importance of faith and reason in reaching shared goals,” according to the White House.Read More
DAMASCUS, Md. – When the U.S. men’s national soccer team takes the field in South Africa June 12 to face England in the World Cup, parishioners from St. Paul Parish in Damascus will be rooting for one of their own.Read More
“Is Christ here or not?” Jarred by the sudden and insistent voice as I exited the Church, I looked up, turned and found a woman standing beside me. She said, again, “Is Christ here or not?”Read More
CATONSVILLE – At a time when convents are shuttering across the country, leaders of Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville announced plans June 4 for a new convent that will house the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia who work in the all-girls school.Read More
It was during the Great Depression when Virginia said “hi” to Sebastian LaRossa at a dance. She left to say hello to the bandleader, and when she walked back, Sebastian said to her, “You know I’m going to marry you.”Read More