Catholics of all ages represented the Archdiocese of Baltimore well at the annual March for Life in Washington Jan. 19.


Catholics of all ages represented the Archdiocese of Baltimore well at the annual March for Life in Washington Jan. 19.

Jesus demands absolute faith in his Person and in his mission, a mission in which the Father draws us to Jesus lifted high upon the Cross so that we might share in his Resurrection. No longer are we to be redeemed by animal sacrifices – rather it is the Lord, God’s own Son in the flesh, who gives himself to the Father and wherein to us on the Cross in sacrificial love.

Pope Francis called on indigenous people of the Amazon to work with missionaries and bishops to shape a church with an “Amazonian and indigenous” face.

President Donald Trump said that his administration “will always defend the very first right in the Declaration of Independence, and that is the right to life.”

New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during a homily at the Jan. 18 Mass that opened the National Prayer Vigil for Life.

For years and years I have cried while cutting onions.

When friends of ours suggested we get a group together and go bowling last weekend, I knew I wouldn’t have any trouble selling my family on the idea. We love bowling.

Josephite Father Joseph Francis Xavier Del Vecchio, whose gruff exterior could not hide the compassion he showed several generations of children in West Baltimore, died Jan. 13

“Hostiles” works from the premise that not only were white soldiers in the 1890s aware of their complicity in the decades-long genocide of Native Americans, they could feel immense, paralyzing guilt about their actions.

Honolulu Bishop Larry Silva gave general absolution to about 45 people in a deacon formation program in response to the alert of an imminent ballistic missile attack that put Hawaii in a state of panic shortly after 8 a.m. Jan. 13.

Christians must be aware of the injustices and exploitation suffered by migrants and those seeking a better life for themselves and their families, Pope Francis said.

I wish we had a litmus test to identify the people who deserve our praise. But it won’t ever be simple. We are all sinners.
