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CHICAGO – Six young people – all between the ages of 18 and 25 -were charged with felony criminal defacement of property and simple battery after spattering fake blood on themselves and nearby worshippers during the 11 a.m. Easter Mass in the auditorium at Holy Name Cathedral’s parish center in Chicago March 23.

In the early 1990s, I was given lunch at the Roman headquarters of the Society of Jesus by two very – no, make that extremely – high-ranking Jesuits. The table-talk turned to a fascinating question: Are there permanent religious charisms in the church? Most religious congregations die within a century of their founding; our Lord might delay his return for tens of thousands of years, so that we are the “early Church.” Given that fact and that possibility, could we, today, judge that there are permanent religious charisms in the church, gifts of the Holy Spirit that will endure institutionally in religious orders?

The following is the homily Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien gave at the Chrism Mass March 17 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Homeland. The celebration of the Mass of Chrism marks a privileged moment for the People of God throughout the Church Universal this week and what a privileged moment this is for me to stand in your midst, the People of God of Baltimore.

A group of young ladies at Our Lady of Victory, Arubtus, have played together since the third grade for the traveling basketball team. The team is coached by two mothers.

Because of their remarkable regular seasons, both St. Frances Academy, Baltimore, and Mount St. Joseph High School, Irvington, were invited to play in the 2008 Alhambra Catholic Invitational in Cumberland.