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Every election year, the Maryland Catholic Conference surveys the state’s candidates for the U.S. Congress about their positions on issues of interest to Catholics.

This past June marked an important anniversary for Catholic Hispanics in the United States: 40 years ago – on June 19, 1972, to be precise – some 250 church leaders involved in Hispanic ministry met for three days in Washington, D.C. in what was billed as the first Encuentro Nacional Hispano de Pastoral.

A college graduate for more than four years now, my first time back in the classroom at a higher education institution was Oct. 23 when I shadowed a seminarian in his fourth and final year at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Roland Park.  I am writing a story, slated

Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg, Germany, allows Catholics to receive the sacraments only if they pay a church membership tax (CR, Oct. 4).

President Obama has failed America with his domestic economic policies, massive debt, high unemployment, high energy prices and socialism with big government dependency, weakness because we cannot be a military superpower if we are not an economic superpower.

Sometimes we have answers to questions that no one asks. As you know from reading this column, I like to write and preach about the “big issues.” What’s the meaning of life? Where is God when bad things happen? What happens when we die?

 My guest blogger Kris Bedsworth is a woman of tremendous fortitude. She’s patient, positive, and courageous enough to serve as a substitute teacher in my school, which is no easy feat. We met last year when we were both pregnant with our second children, boys born less than three months