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The recent national poll of Catholics indicating the laity has more concern over economic and poverty issues than non-negotiable moral issues should be a wakeup call to American bishops that either they failed to adequately communicate the “social doctrine” of the Church or the laity and some theologians have decided to ignore it in favor of a narrow understanding of “social justice.”

It is tragic that it qualifies as national news when one Catholic bishop in Green Bay unabashedly urges his flock to vote according to the Church’s teachings on abortion and gay marriage: clearly stating that it’s sinful to vote for those who support those atrocities.

People regularly complain about the insincerity of our leaders, but none of them compares to the deceitfulness and hypocrisy of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, simply known as Talleyrand, the spineless diplomat from revolutionary France. Yet, I believe one day he will be in heaven, and his life, therefore, relates an

St. Frances Academy in East Baltimore opened the Father Joubert Boarding House for Boys Oct. 21. The house is a stone’s throw from the East Baltimore school. There are 11 boys living in the house, which had been home to the Christian Brothers, who had a mission at St. Frances. The homey

Archbishop William E. Lori released a statement Oct. 31 on the teaching role of priests.

A young boy was once asked what a saint was. The only saints he had ever seen were the saints in the stained glass windows in Church. So he replied very simply: “A saint is someone who lets the light shine through!”

 Our neighborhood used to be a thick pine grove before being developed in 1999. Some of the remaining pine trees border the back yards at the end of our court. As I watch the tall trees on the hill in our backyard garden dance and sway with the winds of

The science used to cast homosexual parenting in a neutral or even positive light has proved unsound.

  For the past three years, I have been asking my husband—and almost anyone else who would listen—why no one had created a drive-through grocery service. You see, once you have children to unbuckle and coax into the cart and placate and discipline and talk out of the cookies and bribe with