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Charles Dickens’ classic, “Great Expectations,” opens on Christmas Eve. It introduces us to Pip, an orphan who was being raised by his sister and her husband. As a boy, Pip didn’t think he’d amount to much but his chance encounter with a convict (Magwitch) and with a rich elderly woman (Miss Havisham) and her daughter (Estella), changed Pip’s view of himself.

So what did Election Day and Advent have in common? For me, quite a bit. Let me tell my story as succinctly as possible.

A National Black Catholic Men’s Conference was held recently at the Laurel Holiday Inn. I am known as one who does not attend such conferences but something drew me to this one and I am glad that I attended. I am also glad and proud to be a “Black Catholic man.” Can you as a black Catholic man say the same or are you, too, hiding out instead of “Stepping Out.” Where are you my brother?

With both vice president candidates calling themselves Catholic, that should have been a good teaching point for our Sunday sermons before the election.

After months of discussions between invested parties, the Archdiocese of Baltimore confirmed that St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Towson will continue to operate as a Catholic hospital after its anticipated Dec. 1 sale to the University of Maryland Medical System.

Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore will observe the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Dec. 8 – a holy day of obligation.

As the recent election cycle wound down to its final days, a common phrase was repeated continuously by the talking heads on the cable news channels.“Ground Game.”“Ground Game” is defined by the strategy and operations of both political parties in deploying supporters across the country – in state and national