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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops launched a National Prayer Movement for the Year of Faith, which ends Nov. 24. The USCCB asks all people of faith to join the movement to pray for our nation, life marriage and religious liberty. Prayer is holy, patriotic, efficacious, a spiritual work of mercy, and it works when all else fails.

In her article, “Welcoming strangers” (CR, Jan.24), Sister Linda Stilling recounted a sympathetic anecdote concerning an undocumented alien with a fraudulent driver’s license bearing another man’s photo.

A Loyola University Maryland undergraduate student has been diagnosed with bacterial meningitis and is currently in serious but stable condition at a local hospital.

We’ve all heard the old saying, “charity covers a multitude of sins,” and, like a lot of old sayings, it is true as far as it goes. Trouble is, it doesn’t go quite far enough.

So, when are we old? Let me tell you a story. It was half-time during the AFC championship game between the Ravens and the Patriots. I decided to come back to the rectory to watch the second half.

Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, told the Catholic Review that under the proposed rules, the mandate “reaches not only into the workplace, it reaches into the family structure.”

  I walk into a kindergarten screening for my son and find myself staring at a clipboard. “At what age did your child start walking?” says the form. “At what age did your child start talking?” “Did your child have a normal birth?” And I want to write, “Does it really matter?” These questions pop up