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With Robert De Niro as insult comic Jackie Burke, this is where funny has gone to die – cringing the entire way.

Vatican official speaks at U.S. bishops’ bioethics conference

The head of the Pontifical Council for Life urged the U.S. bishops to stress the human dimension that is under threat of being ignored in the continued search for technological progress.

Amen: Can Big Brother make you virtuous?

George P. Matysek Jr.

Amen, Commentary

A government can’t make its citizens virtuous by bribing them or threatening them with punishment.

Family Night with the Blast includes local Catholic products, Archbishop Lori

Archbishop William E. Lori will be present for the Baltimore Blast’s Feb. 17 Archdiocese of Baltimore Family Night.

Church needs religious orders’ courage, witness, pope tells superiors

The pope expressed concern about newer religious communities he described as “restorationists.”

Archdiocese of Baltimore releases financial report for Fiscal Year 2015-2016

George P. Matysek Jr.

Fiscal Services, Giving, Local News, News

Coming on the heels of a fiscal year that saw a 3 percent increase in parish offertory giving and increased support for the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal, the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s total operating income increased by nearly $2.2 million.

Trying to decide when to panic (Part One)

I’m trying to decide when to panic.Standing where I am (somewhere in the middle, I suppose) I turn to face my friends on the left and panic is pretty much all I see. Well, panic and its more sober, productive, currently-popular relation: resistance. I see people who are more than

Trying to decide when to panic (Part Two)

I used to think of myself as the stubborn, brave, independent type – the type who spoke the truth and stuck up for the oppressed no matter the consequences. After all, I was a kid who stood up to bullies. I regularly stick up for myself. I used to make

Some Catholic schools hold, even cut, cost of attendance

The Catholic Review’s annual survey of cost of attendance among non-public schools in the archdiocese shows again that Catholic high schools are more affordable than all but a handful of their peers.

At audience, pope leads prayers for migrants, trafficking victims

Pope Francis asked government officials around the world to “decisively combat this plague” of human trafficking.

New gender policy won’t affect Catholic Scouting units, says committee

The Boy Scouts of America’s new policy to accept members based on their gender identity will have no impact on Scouting units sponsored by the Catholic Church, said the National Catholic Committee on Scouting.

Ave atque vale: A Eulogy for a Mouse among Men