Bishop Tobin leads burial service for fetus found floating amid sewage at a Rhode Island wastewater treatment facility.

Bishop Tobin leads burial service for fetus found floating amid sewage at a Rhode Island wastewater treatment facility.
May was the bloodiest month in Baltimore in some four decades, as 42 people were murdered in our city during those 31 days. It is not even mid-June and the violence continues as six more people were killed in Baltimore last Saturday and Sunday. As though this sad news were not disturbing enough, it has […]
It is easy for us to sit in judgment, to discount the violence, to block it from our minds and hearts as something that doesn’t have an effect on me, my family, my friends. To do this would be to turn one’s back on the very faith that compels us to show our compassion and our mercy to those most in need of it.
I try not to think about cancer. After all the time I’ve spent standing helpless on the sidelines watching good people fight a vicious, faceless force from the inside out, I try not to let my mind collapse under the weight of painful memories and recurring images of human suffering.In
Twenty Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore graduated a total of 2,310 seniors this spring.
Area schools started dismissing for summer break last week. By next Friday, school children and teens from all parts of Maryland and the Archdiocese of Baltimore should be finished the school year and ready for some rest and relaxation… And swimming and outdoor play… And summer camps and trips

The U.S. bishops gathered in St. Louis for their annual spring general assembly.
Pope Francis has approved new procedures for the Vatican to investigate and judge claims of “abuse of office” by bishops who allegedly failed to protect minors and vulnerable adults from sex abuse.

Bishop Luis Alberto Fernández Alara of the Diocese of Rafaela in Argentina traveled to Baltimore recently to visit a priest battling cancer.

After undergoing an amputation of his leg from the knee down, Monsignor Hartnett finds support from brother priests and lay people.
The Archdiocese of Baltimore finished fiscal year 2014 with an operating surplus of revenue over expenses of nearly $8.6 million. After acknowledging investment income, the surplus rises to $12.3 million, according to a report distributed by the archdiocese in early June.

When Pope Francis met Russian President Vladimir Putin June 10, the ongoing crisis in eastern Ukraine was the principal topic of their conversation.
