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Norma Weber Cetnar Hart, 88, holds Leah Ballor, three months, at Leah’s baptism Jan. 20 at St. Joseph in Sykesville, where she was the newest family member to wear a gown made from Norma’s first Communion dress. (Courtesy Beverly Cetnar Hart)

Sykesville family carries on tradition

Emily Rosenthal Alster
February 9, 2019
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When three-month-old Leah Therese Ballor was baptized at St. Joseph Catholic Community in Sykesville Jan. 20, she continued a family tradition by wearing a gown that has roots with an aunt who was a Daughter of Charity who had served in China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  

Ricardo Abarca, Jorge Millan, Miguel Plata, Erick Delgadillo, Ismael Cruz and Gina Rodriguez star in a scene from the movie "Miss Bala." The Catholic News Service classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. (CNS photo/Sony Pictures)

Movie Review: ‘Miss Bala’

John Mulderig
February 8, 2019
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“Miss Bala” (Columbia), director Catherine Hardwicke’s remake of a well-received 2011 Spanish-language film, is meant to be the tale of an ordinary woman discovering her inner toughness when placed in extraordinary circumstances.

U.S. President Donald Trump joins Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Chris Coons, D-Del., in prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington Feb. 7, 2019. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)

Trump defends rights of faith-based adoption agencies at prayer breakfast

Catholic News Service
February 8, 2019
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Touting efforts to protect religious freedom, President Donald Trump told the National Prayer Breakfast that his administration would defend the right of faith-based adoption agencies to place children in families based on firmly held religious beliefs.

Archbishop Lori’s Talk: “Interior and Exterior Freedom”; St. Thomas More University

Archbishop William E. Lori
February 7, 2019
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Over time, I have come to see how easily discussions of religious freedom can start off on the wrong foot. We often wade into controversies over specific threats to religious freedom without sufficiently reflecting on what freedom itself is and on how the exercise of our freedoms are to engage and influence the culture in which we are immersed.

Rahsaan Edwards (left), the veteran point guard for the St. Maria Goretti basketball team, commutes to Hagerstown from his home in Charles Town, W.Va. Sean Clem (right), a senior cross country runner and lacrosse player who is a competitive alpine skier, crosses the Blue Ridge from his home in Frederick every school day to attend Gorretti. (Courtesy St. Maria Goretti High School)

Seniors go the distance to attend St. Maria Goretti in Hagerstown

Paul McMullen
February 7, 2019
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Two senior athletes at St. Maria Goretti High School in Hagerstown exemplify the regional nature of the institution.

Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, responds to a question during a conference on "Healing the Breach of Trust: The Role of the Laity in Responding to the Crisis" Feb. 6, 2019, at The Catholic University of America in Washington. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Head of U.S. bishops says new ‘season’ could come after abuse crisis

Rhina Guidos
February 7, 2019
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The laity may be angry over the most recent revelations of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis, but bishops, particularly younger ones, share in that anger and “want to move with real force” toward solutions and it could yield a new season for the church, said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Feb. 6.

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