WASHINGTON – After a painful controversy about the sometimes bombastic comments made by the former pastor at their longtime church in Chicago, President Barack Obama said he and his wife, Michelle, were treading carefully in choosing a worship community in Washington.Read More
Over the years, I have literally spent thousands of dollars on courses, classes and books in an effort to be of most help to couples in their marriages. So, naturally, one of the most helpful things I ever found was not in any of those courses, classes or books. It was something I found at...Read More
WASHINGTON – Sometimes, when the Supreme Court reverses itself on an earlier decision – in some cases, decades earlier – there is a great to-do over what it means.Read More
CUMBERLAND – When Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien visited Bishop Walsh School in Cumberland soon after his Oct. 1 installation, he challenged students and faculty to come up with ways of raising awareness about vocations to the religious life.Read More
WASHINGTON – Torture survivors and advocates implored Congress June 25 to investigate allegations of military torture of war prisoners, saying that the U.S. must be an example for other countries in respect for human rights.Read More
The size of the first graduating class of Sisters Academy of Baltimore, Lansdowne, is the same size of some Catholic families. Although the 10 girls are not all Catholic nor are they sisters, their connection over the past four years since the school opened has been like a family, more distinctively – a sisterhood.Read More
WASHINGTON – Despite growing numbers of Iraqi Christians fleeing their country to escape the violence and persecution, an Iraqi Dominican nun says she will remain in her country.Read More
I thought Father Dietzen’s column on salvation (CR, June 4) clearly covered not only the chasm between God and man, but also God’s generous gifts to us. In response, Elaine Ireland (CR, June 18) states “if our focus is on our own salvation and our reason for doing for others is to gain that salvation,...Read More
A 35-year resident of St. Martin’s Home for the Aged, Catonsville, which is run by the Little Sisters of the Poor, turned 100 years old. Imelda Smith commemorated the milestone birthday with the Little Sisters, residents, staff and friends in the St. Martin's Home auditorium.Read More
SAN ANTONIO – In one of a series of status reports on ongoing projects of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops June 18, bishops attending their spring meeting in San Antonio were told the rapid pace of legal changes on the status of marriage in the United States has been keeping that concern a top...Read More
For years, Horace Wisniewski faithfully brought Holy Communion to the sick and dying in Dundalk. But after a heart attack slowed him down about a year ago, the roles changed. Now the 90-year-old extraordinary minister of Holy Communion from Sacred Heart of Mary, Graceland Park, relies on others to bring the Eucharist to him.Read More