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For 31 years, John Rapisarda has referred to Deacon Gregory Rapisarda as “Dad.”

Presidential candidates talk about their faith

LAKE FOREST, Calif. – The presumptive presidential nominees of the nation’s two major political parties Aug. 16 tried to define themselves in religious terms on topics ranging from their personal moral failings to how to deal with climate change during a televised forum from Saddleback Church in Lake Forest.

Pope urges Christian drivers to examine consciences

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI, lamenting the high number of traffic accidents over the summer holiday period, called on Christians to make “a personal examination of conscience” about the way they drive.

Priest has spent his career building bridges among cultures, groups

NEW YORK – Growing up in a family where “difference was normative” proved to be excellent preparation for Monsignor Robert Stern’s priestly career of building bridges between and among different cultural groups.

Baltimore says farewell to Bishop Malooly

It’s not every day that Bishop W. Francis Malooly is compared to a record-breaking Olympian.

Church must help overcome racism in modern society, pope says

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI warned that racism is alive in modern society, and he urged the church to help overcome all forms of racial intolerance.

Hong Kong church group uses Olympics to note China’s rights abuses

HONG KONG – The Hong Kong Diocese’s justice and peace commission has used the occasion of the Beijing Olympics to highlight China’s human rights violations.

Leaders say missionary activity must change, expand

LIMA, Peru – Catholic leaders at an international mission conference for the Americas said the church must become a missionary community with a new mentality.

Don’t Iraq casualties count too?

Regarding the letter from James M. Althoff (CR, Aug. 14) in which he states that the lives lost in Iraq are “volunteer soldiers encircled in body armor, armed to the teeth and often in the cocoon of a Humvee,” I would ask him about the 100,000 plus Iraqi casualties, many, if not most of whom are civilians, women and children? Do they not count? Are they not innocent victims? Like Mr. Althoff, I, too, would like to see abortion disappear from the scene. However, I am realist enough to know that such a wish is just that, a wish.

Conference aims to improve evangelization

Organizers of the Aug. 23 Upon This Rock Evangelization Conference hope they can reinvigorate the faithful of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and beyond.

Friendship stands the test of time

Joe Molino, a parishioner of Prince of Peace in Edgewood, cannot explain why the friendship he and his wife, Anna, have shared with seven other couples across the archdiocese has lasted as long as it has.

Latin patriarch says he’d tell next US president to follow conscience