Immigration may indeed be a policy problem and a social problem, but human beings are not reducible to the category of “problem” – they are persons!Read More
ST. LOUIS – After damaging tornadoes and severe weather hit the St. Louis area hard on New Year’s Eve, the reaction of many affected by the storm was more gratitude than grief and more reaching out to help others than asking for help themselves.Read More
Darlene Zeiler was the second of nine of her siblings and one of 22 family members spanning two generations to grace the halls of St. Clement School.Read More
Mercy Medical Center has launched a new program to help homeless families who are living in shelters, transitional housing or doubled-up with relatives.Read More
MEXICO CITY – Whenever the freight train rolls into town, Father Alejandro Solalinde and his team of pastors know it’s going to be a long night. The freight trains, loaded with hundreds of Central American migrants heading north to the United States, stop in Father Solalinde’s town of Ixtepec, an important rail junction in southern...Read More
A funeral Mass was offered March 29 at Our Lady of Angels Convent Chapel in Aston, Pa., for Sister Francesca Krolczyk, who gave to the Archdiocese of Baltimore 56 of her 67 years as a professed member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia. Sister Francesca died March 24 in her hometown of Baltimore....Read More
When St. Bernardine, Baltimore, parishioners were asked to vote for their favorite usher, the overwhelming victory of Edmondson Village resident Joe Oden Sr. didn’t surprise any of his colleagues.Read More
In a national conference sponsored by CRS, Jesuit Father Allen Figueroa Deck said the Catholic Church is the organization best positioned to meet Haiti's needs.Read More
Introduction Thank you, Worthy Supreme Knight. It is a pleasure to be with you this morning and to have the opportunity to congratulate our newly elected state deputies and to offer a few reflections and words of encouragement to all our state deputies, together with the Supreme Officers and Supreme Directors. The first job of...Read More