Father Ernesto Cardenal, the Nicaraguan poet and revolutionary whose political work earned him a public admonishment from St. John Paul II, died March 1 in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. He was 95.
The 41st annual Social Ministry Convocation was held Feb. 29 at Mercy High School in Baltimore.
Continuing his recovery from a mild cold, Pope Francis said that he would be unable to attend his annual Lenten retreat with Roman Curia officials.
It was the Panthers’ third straight title and 10th overall, as another rough-and-tumble renewal of the area’s best rivalry brought the largest crowd of the winter to Loyola University Maryland’s Reitz Arena.
In memory of those who have lost their lives to violence in Baltimore City, may God grant them peace and bring healing to their loved ones and to the City of Baltimore.
Long after his death, now-St. John Henry Newman’s ideas found the world marching to them.
While beer and pretzels might be most closely associated with oom-pah music, polka dancing and Oktoberfests, they have a much older and more spiritual pedigree as the “official beverage and food of Lent,” according to Father William Saunders.
Last weekend we took a day trip to Frederick, and John suggested that we stop at St. Peter’s in Libertytown, Md., for Saturday evening Mass.
The Catholic mother, who spent nearly a decade on death row in Pakistan after she was falsely accused of blasphemy against Islam, wants to live closer to French writer Anne-Isabelle Tollet, who was influential in her fight for freedom and helped her to write her autobiography, “Enfin Libre” (Finally Free).
The differences in attitude while muddling through emotional heartache or illness are what can make or break us.
Father Doyle fields questions about annulments and dropping the consecrated host.
The rough atmosphere of writer-director Andrew Heckler’s drama “Burden” makes it anything but a family film.
