JERUSALEM – Ann Milner, 61, sensed she was being called by God, so she left her home in England for the nearly 2,000-mile pilgrimage from Rome to Jerusalem.Read More
LONDON – A popular Catholic priest returned a prestigious award to Queen Elizabeth II after he admitted sexually abusing boys at a school in Africa more than 40 years ago.Read More
WASHINGTON – When Fredron DeKarlos Blackmon was elected to lead the Knights of Peter Claver last September, it was a natural progression of his involvement as a professional lay Catholic.Read More
Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services announced June 24 that its Board of Directors has named Dr. Carolyn Y. Woo, a former member of the CRS Board, to serve as the agency’s president and CEO. Woo will succeed Ken Hackett, who is retiring after leading CRS for the past 18 years.Read More
ROME – The transformation of bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ is like the transformation people undergo when they give themselves up to the love of God, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More
NEW YORK – Many news stories about the recently released report on “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010” tried – and failed – to capture its complex findings in a sound bite, according to the principal investigator for the study.Read More
My Social Justice class at Saint John’s Catholic Prep in Frederick is writing to tell you about our course of actions toward poverty and economic justice. We feel it’s in the best interest to educate as many people as we can on the real issues as our first course of action, because knowledge is everything.Read More
Transitional Deacon Warren Tanghe’s path to the Catholic priesthood may have been long and winding, but the former Anglican priest will be open to all the gifts of the holy spirit as he is ordained June 24 at 6 p.m. in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary...Read More
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – First lady Michelle Obama urged a crowd of more than 2,000 that included hundreds of young women to help shape Africa’s future by combating corruption, building strong democratic institutions and working to improve the lives of the poor and sick in a speech at Regina Mundi Church in Soweto.Read More
It’s summer in the city, and if past summers – and the past couple of weeks – are any indication, the season that for many means relaxing by the pool and vacationing down the ocean will not be like that for some of our brothers and sisters. Instead, June, July and August will be marred...Read More
Everything old is new again. That is the adage used to describe the cyclical life of fads and other hallmarks of our society that come and go and eventually come again. From cars, fashions and even hair styles, “retro” is in … for now.Read More