When Father John Bauer, C.Ss.R., celebrates Mass on Veterans Day Nov. 11, at Sacred Heart of Jesus, Highlandtown, he’ll not only dress in his camouflage vestments, he’ll reminisce about a Veterans Day 38 years ago, the date he was sworn into the U.S. Army.Read More
Four Mercy High School, Baltimore, students gently touched the ivory keys on shiny, black, baby grand pianos, filling the lobby of the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall with music as hundreds of visitors viewed various works of art from aspiring young artists. On April 9, some 350 students from about 50 Catholic schools in the archdiocese...Read More
Fifty-eight residents of a Catholic care facility for developmentally disabled adults were among the hundreds of thousands of San Diego County residents displaced by the region’s wildfires.Read More
The U.S. bishops voted Nov. 14 to establish a permanent Subcommittee on Health Care Issues under the jurisdiction of their Committee on Doctrine.Read More
WASHINGTON – From the earliest days of the nation, U.S. and Vatican leaders have considered it worthwhile to keep diplomatic channels open, despite the sometimes rocky political paths involved.Read More
ROME – Orthodox and Roman Catholics recognize that the bishop of Rome has primacy among all the world’s bishops, although they disagree on the extent to which his leadership translates into a concrete exercise of authority.Read More
ARLINGTON, Va. – Soldiers “are making life and death decisions” every day in Iraq and Afghanistan, and military chaplains “are out there in the field with them day in and day out,” said the Catholic priest who is the new Army chief of chaplains.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The 2009-10 Year for Priests will demonstrate that the Catholic Church “is proud of her priests, loves them, honors them (and) admires them,” said Cardinal Claudio Hummes, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy.Read More
Richard J. Dowling, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference, will speak about the Catholic Church’s position on the death penalty and Maryland efforts to abolish the death penalty during a Nov. 7 event at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen Parish Center in Homeland.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI appealed for an end to violence in Nigeria and prayed for victims of the most recent wave of civil conflict there.Read More
WASHINGTON – Public television stations may be confronted by a hard choice later this year: drop their religious programming or risk losing their affiliation with the Public Broadcasting Service.Read More