WASHINGTON – TV news anchor and journalism icon Walter Cronkite, who died July 17 at age 92, made the public “feel the news,” said the founding director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Culver City, Calif.Read More

Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore, usually is traditional, but the Sept. 23 afternoon Mass featured worshippers in aboriginal garb, the exuberant sound of drums and singing in the Tagalog language.Read More

NEW YORK – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is scheduled to be the guest speaker at the 62nd Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner Oct. 18 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. Catholic New York, the archdiocesan newspaper, reported recently that Blair had accepted Cardinal Edward M. Egan’s invitation to speak.Read More

The Knights of Columbus of Maryland is participating in a North American effort paying special tribute to Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas, through the Silver Rose Program.Read More

WASHINGTON – The Catholic Health Association and other U.S. hospital groups have agreed to reduced Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements and other system reforms that will free up $155 billion over 10 years for health care reform.Read More

According to Anthony Macri, The John Carroll School, Bel Air, boys’ assistant basketball coach, the Patriots recently played host to 25 collegiate basketball coaches and staff during the first week of what is known as the “Open Period.” Sept. 9 marked the first date in the NCAA’s recruitment calendar that Division I schools have an...Read More

HUNTINGTON, Utah –The wrenching search for six lost miners was over, leaving only funerals, a public memorial service and a private committal service for the three Catholic miners attended by family members. A funeral Mass for Luis Hernandez and Juan Carlos Payan was celebrated Sept. 6 at Mission San Rafael in Huntington. Concelebrated by Father...Read More

ROME – When Pope Benedict XVI’s social encyclical is released, Catholics shouldn’t just ask, “What does the pope say I’m doing right?” but “What should I do to act more morally?” said the head of the Knights of Columbus.Read More