LONDON – A revised code of ethics will prevent doctors from providing contraceptives and abortion referrals at a London Catholic hospital popular with celebrity mothers. The finalized code, which is expected to be passed by the hospital board May 16, will encompass all staff and resident practitioners at the Hospital of St. John and St....Read More

WASHINGTON – Rare is the priest in the United States who holds the title of diocesan exorcist.Read More

All it takes to make Maureen Cannon cry is a good country or love song, especially “if I couple it with another situation going on in my life,” said the St. Francis Xavier, Hunt Valley, parishioner. “I think it’s extremely therapeutic to cry. Once I’ve cried, I have a better perspective and outlook on a...Read More

Six years ago, Father Gerard J. Bowen told St. Augustine School principal Patricia Schratz that his Elkridge parish needed to hire Ruth Carmichael to run a hot lunch program for the school.Read More

The Monsignor O’Dwyer Retreat House, Sparks, was awarded $7,500 from the Koch Foundation in Florida to support 60 confirmation retreats for parish religious education programs. In turn, the retreat house awarded 20 retreats (an overnight stay and two meals) each to three parishes demonstrating a financial need: Our Lady of Hope, Dundalk; St. Bernardine, Baltimore;...Read More

HOUSTON – Greg Hall was preparing to serve as an acolyte for Mass at Christ the Redeemer Church when an associate contacted him about a “banging on the pipe.”Read More

The reverence that exuded from St. Casimir, Canton, was invigorating as some 1,135 pilgrims sang and praised the Lord before parading down the streets of Baltimore in the 14th annual Youth and Young Adult Pilgrimage, the largest in archdiocesan history, on March 31. “Today the community of Baltimore will see Christ in the faces of...Read More

What happens when we die? As we approach November, the month dedicated to prayer for the faithful departed, what happens to the departed faithful?Read More