Seeing Pope Francis was a moment to cherish for the Gould family – and for other Baltimore attendees of the Festival of Families.

Seeing Pope Francis was a moment to cherish for the Gould family – and for other Baltimore attendees of the Festival of Families.
Thousands gather around a video screen at 15th Street and JFK Boulevard to watch the papal Mass in Philadelphia Sept. 27. (George P. Matysek Jr./CR Staff)“Enter that line and you enter the path of destruction!”That’s what a man holding a sign filled with Bible verses screamed
We don’t tend to watch much TV. You’re probably thinking that’s because we’re all reading War and Peace or reciting Robert Louis Stevenson poems. Actually, it’s because if the TV is on, it’s usually Netflix.But a Papal Mass on a Sunday afternoon? That’s the perfect chance for a family to
Riding shotgun in the Baltimore Popemobile as it arrived at the Mirenda Center on the campus of Neumann University Thursday night, I leaned out the window, put my finger to my lips and made a cartoon sound to waiting college officials and media who didn’t know me from Adam.On cue,
“What’s so special about the pope?” was a question posed on Facebook by one of my former students, who is now in her early twenties. “I don’t know who he is, but I don’t want my roads to be shut down. Kids shouldn’t be missing school for this,” said a

Not far from where the Liberty Bell is on display, Pope Francis urged the people of the United States to continue to “proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.”

The Feet for Francis Pilgrimage of Love and Mercy reached its penultimate stop Sept. 26, pulling into St. Philomena Parish just in time for 5:15 Mass.
A pilgrimage is not a pilgrimage without sacrifice.For me, they have included not being able to own this story. I had unrealistic plans to walk every step of every day’s planned walk, take photos and video and write about it, but then media interest intensified and there were not enough

A parishioner of Sacred Heart in Glyndon, under threat of deportation, walks in love in Feet for Francis pilgrimage.

The time to educate young people about leading lives of sexual integrity doesn’t start when they hit puberty, Erika Bachiochi said.

Dealing with war, development, the economy or environment, bureaucrats and diplomats always must remember that the lives of real people are at stake, Pope Francis told the United Nations.

Nothing stirs memories of Archdiocese of Baltimore Catholic schools like seeing archdiocesan pilgrims tromp past your home turf in Pennsylvania.
