VATICAN CITY – The Vatican newspaper ran an illustration of a chimpanzee in late January. The odd thing about this chimp was that he was urbanely dressed in a sweater, tie and straw hat and looked as if he might be striding across the lawn at Oxford.Read More

WASHINGTON – The U.S. House Oct. 13 passed the Protect Life Act, which applies long-standing federal policies on abortion funding and conscience rights to the health reform law.Read More

CLARKSVILLE – Only a few years ago, the quaint little chapel that served as the first church of St. Louis in Clarksville was on the verge of ruin. After decades of neglect, the historic house of worship was in a terrible state of disrepair, suffering structural weaknesses and cracked walls. At some point, a gaping...Read More

WASHINGTON - Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services and a group representing hundreds of other Christian military chaplains have objected to a Pentagon memo allowing military chaplains to participate in or officiate at same-sex marriages on or off military installations.Read More

When Sister Marietta Russell, M.H.S.H., participated in the last regularly scheduled Sunday Mass at St. Martin, Jan. 27, she reflected not only on her last nine years as a parishioner and leader of a parish sewing group, she recalled that her religious order got its start in that very west Baltimore building 118 years ago.Read More

Tony Magliano’s pacifist opinions return in “America’s longest war: 10 years and counting” (CR, Sept. 29), where he repeats the Beatles’ classic, “All You Need is Love.” His advice would have us believe that peace is the normal state of mankind when history consistently teaches otherwise. He may wish it were possible for the United...Read More

Sister Mary Ferdinand Tunis, R.S.M., celebrated 70 years as a nun and 88 years as a parishioner of St. Cecilia, Baltimore, on Dec. 23. “I can’t do too much with the parish but be their senior member,” she said with a chuckle.Read More

EMMITSBURG, Md. - In the final days of June 1863, the Civil War came perilously close to home for the Daughters of Charity in Emmitsburg.Read More