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We’re an hour from tip-off here at Loyola University’s Reitz Arena. Should be a good one between John Carroll and St. Frances. St. Frances is already out on the court […]

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien had people buzzing Feb. 26 in his homily during the ordination of transitional Deacon Warren Tanghe. In speaking to Warren, he casually announced that the former […]

Sister Cecilia Adorni (Left) dances on her 103rd birthday (credit: CBS 2) Born into a Polish and Czech family, I’ve danced plenty of polkas in my life.  I’m hoping I’m […]

Father Augustus Tolton, the first African-American priest, took a step closer to sainthood this week when Chicago Cardinal Francis George announced that the priest’s sainthood cause has been introduced in […]

WASHINGTON – The U.S. bishops’ Office of General Counsel said the Obama administration’s decision to no longer support the Defense of Marriage Act in legal challenges ahead “represents an abdication” of its “constitutional obligation to ensure that laws of the United States are faithfully executed.”

Charlestown residents are on the go! In May of 2000, I interviewed the now deceased Father Bernard S. Bak about his role as a retired priest in the Archdiocese of […]

One of the underappreciated jobs for those of us in the news business is writing headlines. Sometimes it’s fun, as when we get to write clever little puns, such as […]

It seems that what’s now known as “traditional marriage” can’t get a break these days. At the same time Maryland is on the verge of legalizing same-sex marriage (see this story about […]