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Maryland’s Catholic bishops call on Congress to pass immigration reform as soon as possible.

   “Come Apart and Rest Awhile”This Monday and Tuesday marked the first overnight retreat of this school year for my John Carroll juniors. For several decades we have taken our kids to the Msgr. O’Dwyer Retreat House, the former CYO retreat house on York Road in Sparks, MD.Founded in 1963 by Msgr.

When patients bring me three page birth plans, I have to laugh, my OB said.  “I tell them that the opposite will happen.  If they’d just relax and realize it’s all in God’s hands, everything would be better.”She and I were finalizing my “birth plan,” or my preferences for delivering

Leo’s birthday comes not long after Halloween. That hadn’t really occurred to me until the first October when we went shopping for birthday plates and napkins at a party store.Leo, who was almost 4, stood and stared at a zombie holding a bleeding arm and a grim reaper dripping with

Over the past week I’ve blogged every day as part of the Week in My Life series. This is my final entry in the series. I hope you’ve enjoyed it.It’s Sunday and we have finally persuaded the boys to sleep past 7—just in time for tomorrow when we’ll need them

This week I’m blogging every day as part of the Week in My Life series.We’re all tired from going to bed late after the school’s Bingo night, so the boys surprise us by sleeping in. Daniel crawls into bed with us after 7, when we should be up anyway, so