They devoted their lives to educating and ministering to others, often in some of the most troubled urban areas of the country. Now the retired and infirmed Oblate Sisters of Providence are getting a state-of-the art retirement facility that will allow others to minister to them.Read More

In a private meeting Nov. 8 at the Catholic Center in downtown Baltimore with Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien and Bishop Denis J. Madden, urban vicar, Father Raymond D. Martin was asked to resign his position as pastor of the Catholic Community of South Baltimore Nov. 8 because of violations of archdiocesan pol¬icy and canon law.Read More

A dozen health care professionals from Good Samaritan Hospital, headed by orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Harpal S. Khanuja, will be among a contingent of 56 from Operation Walk Maryland that were to head to Peru Oct. 9.Read More

BALTIMORE – Citing an alarming political and partisan stalemate in Washington, a draft statement discussed by the U.S. bishops Nov. 12 again laid out a moral framework for a transition in Iraq.Read More

CHICAGO – A new book by constitutional scholar Paul Benjamin Linton assesses the legal status of abortion in each of the 50 states, concluding that more than half the abortions performed in the U.S. would remain “constitutionally protected” if Roe v. Wade were overturned.Read More

When Katie Lutz told some of her friends at Franklin High School in Reisterstown she was taking a day off to attend the National Catholic Youth Conference in Columbus, Ohio, they looked at her as though she had sprung a third arm.Read More

Phil Scholz arrived late for the fall semester at Loyola College in Maryland, but not without some experiences that he can incorporate into his combined major of global studies and communications.Read More

Theology might have been on tap Wednesday night but it was the archbishop who was pouring, inspiring the standing-room-only crowd.Read More