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Learn about Deacons Marrero and Okeke, who will be ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Baltimore June 8.

One of my guilty pleasures in the summer is ending a work day that began early with a rapid walk around the golf course. On May 14, after the most recent issue of the Catholic Review had gone to bed, I went home, let Nelly the mutt out back, then

The most disturbing news this spring regarding human nature was not announced with violent video, but with cold numbers in a long-range governmental study.

Re Christopher Gunty’s editorial on capital punishment, “Justice or vengeance?,” the banning of capital punishment, which is supported by Gunty and the bishops (in Baltimore and the USCCB), is inconsistent with the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

If I had been paying attention, I would have noticed the burning smell as I was driving to pick up the boys. It wasn’t until I reached the school and got out of the car that I saw smoke coming from the hood.That couldn’t be good.I called my husband, who

Not an optimist, Murphy said, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.”We often laugh ironically in my family that whenever Murphy’s Law strikes, it hits Murphys tenfold. But the reality is not so funny.My daughter Katie was hospitalized last November for eight days with stomach ulcers. She’s only 24.

— 1 —On Mother’s Day morning Leo and I went to Mass together. When we got home, he asked for paper and scissors and cut out a heart for me. Then his little brother had to do it, too, though he needed a bit more help. Those cut-out hearts, along