VATICAN CITY – A Vatican official said the recent agreement on a treaty to ban cluster bombs showed solidarity to victims of such weapons and opened an important new chapter in international humanitarian law.
VATICAN CITY – A Vatican official said the recent agreement on a treaty to ban cluster bombs showed solidarity to victims of such weapons and opened an important new chapter in international humanitarian law.
A graduate of Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, has been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Denver.

People gathered May 29 at War Memorial Plaza in Baltimore to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the “holodomor,” or Ukrainian genocide of 1932-33. Father Vasyl Sivinskyi, pastor of St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church in Baltimore, and Father Vasyl Kryshtompol, a Ukrainian Orthodox priest in Baltimore, lead a prayer service. A torch from Ukraine was used during the prayer service.
The Catholic Review Each year at the conclusion of the Maryland General Assembly’s 90-day session, a list of the session’s “best sellers”– the bills most inquired about by the general public—is published by the Legislative Services Department. This session’s best sellers include two measures which add a new term to our health and tax laws: […]
The Catholic Review Each year at the conclusion of the Maryland General Assembly’s 90-day session, a list of the session’s “best sellers”– the bills most inquired about by the general public—is published by the Legislative Services Department. This session’s best sellers include two measures which add a new term to our health and tax laws: […]
Fourth-grader Michael Ehart, 9, of St. Margaret School, Bel Air, spelled his way to the top of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Spelling Bee May 16, becoming the youngest student ever to win the contest.
Fourth-grader Michael Ehart, 9, of St. Margaret School, Bel Air, spelled his way to the top of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Spelling Bee May 16, becoming the youngest student ever to win the contest.
Tell us about your heirlooms! The Catholic Review is looking to profile several parishioners for our 50 PLUS section who possess interesting heirlooms or antiques. E-mail a brief description of the item along with your contact information to ssingleton@catholicreview.org before July 14.
The Catholic Review Although I have visited all our parishes—however briefly in most cases—and a couple of dozen elementary schools to date, I’ve managed so far only a handful of high schools. In celebrating Mass for the students at Mt. St. Joseph, Archbishop Curley and Calvert Hall, I have come to realize that the Archdiocese […]
Loyola College in Maryland took top honors for Maryland in the 2008 Mid-Atlantic RecycleMania competition, recycling more than 118,000 pounds of recycled waste to help bring the Mid-Atlantic region’s total to 7.7 million pounds.
The Catholic Review Last week’s Catholic Review related the return to the Church after many years of the best selling novelist Anne Rice – make that Anne O’Brien Rice (no relation)! Married to an atheist in her late teens and now 66, she described most of her adult life in terms of “despair, guilt and […]
As The Seton Keough High School, Baltimore, settled into second place in the IAAM track and field championship May 17 at Calvert Hall College High School, Towson, two Gator seniors bid farewell to an excellent high school career.
