Funny how a single picture can change everything.Read More

Asked to name the most populous American dioceses, alert Catholics would likely name Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. I rather doubt that most of us would rank Brooklyn (the country’s only completely urban diocese) as high on the league table as it in fact is, and I’m willing to wager that not 1 in...Read More

St. Michael the Archangel School and parish in Overlea have forged a mutually beneficial bond with the Kempske family.Read More

BEIJING – Government officials continued ongoing surveillance of the Cangzhou cathedral because Bishop Joseph Li Liangui did not show up for the Eighth National Congress of Catholic Representatives in Beijing.Read More

GERMANTOWN – About 300 people stood outside a Germantown abortion clinic in biting cold weather for several hours Dec. 6 to protest the arrival of LeRoy Carhart, a controversial doctor from Nebraska who performs late-term abortions.Read More

SAN FRANCISCO – A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco Dec. 6 took up the question of the constitutionality of California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, a hearing that may well have been a prelude to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the initiative.Read More

ARMAGH, Northern Ireland – Cardinal Sean Brady of Armagh, celebrating the funeral for a man who “disappeared” more than 30 years ago, said the paramilitaries suspected of murdering and secretly burying him were trying to play God.Read More

A new group is forming in the Maryland-Washington-Northern Virginia area to help men live their Catholic faith and reclaim what organizers call an “authentic sense of masculinity.”Read More