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Some deacons are getting collared in the Wilmington Diocese. Wilmington Bishop W. Francis Malooly (former auxiliary bishop of Baltimore) has given the greenlight for permanent deacons of Delaware and Maryland’s Eastern Shore to wear Roman collars in certain situations. Gary Morton has the scoop in the Jan. 13 issue of The Dialog. The story points out […]

Notre Dame Preparatory School has met a $500,000 challenge grant from The Charles T. Bauer Foundation that will allow the Towson school to begin two projects honoring deceased alumna Yeardley Reynolds Love: The Yeardley Reynolds Love Field and a scholarship in Love’s name.

Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder It’s a sad reality that Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder has become linked to the Westboro Baptist Church. The 20-year-old Marine was killed nearly five years ago when his Humvee overturned in Iraq. During his funeral, Westboro protesters held anti-gay and anti-Catholic signs outside St. John in Westminster – inexplicably insisting that Snyder’s death was […]

The Maryland Catholic Conference is gearing up once again to make a major push for passage of a business tax credit known as BOAST (Building Opportunities for All Students and Teachers). Long a top priority of the legislative lobbying arm of the state’s Catholic bishops, BOAST would give businesses a 75 percent state income-tax credit […]

Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien Baltimore Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien is heading to Rome and Ireland early this year as part of an Apostolic Visitation of Irish seminaries called by Pope Benedict XVI in his ?March 19, 2010 pastoral letter to the people of Ireland. Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York is leading the visitation of […]

Don’t mess with witches. They’re fighting back against new taxes in Romania: Everyone curses the taxman, but Romanian witches, angry about having to pay up for the first time, hurled poisonous mandrake into the Danube River on Thursday to cast spells on the president and government. In the past, the less mainstream professions of witch, astrologer […]

  Ken Maldonado for The Wall Street Journal I’m all for caution, but this just makes me cringe.  At St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church in Clark, N.J., parishioners no longer handle the communion wafers that they once transferred from one bowl to another at the start of Mass.  Instead, parishioners use a very untraditional looking […]