ANNAPOLIS – At a time of impending budget cuts, leaders of Maryland’s faith community came together outside the State House in Annapolis Dec. 15 to speak up for the poor and vulnerable.Read More

Regarding Tony Magliano's column on health care and subsidiarity (CR, Dec. 10), I ask two questions: Is it morally right to take someone's property and give it to someone else? Is it morally right to accept said stolen property?Read More

Each year on the first Sunday of Advent, Father Jim would celebrate Mass for several families in our neighborhood at one of our homes. The Mass included the blessing of our Advent wreaths and was followed by dinner. Between Mass and dinner, he would regale us with the biography of an obscure saint – we...Read More

DUBLIN, Ireland – Bishop Donal Murray of Limerick has resigned after weeks of pressure over his handling of clerical sexual abuse when he served in the Dublin Archdiocese.Read More

WASHINGTON – The Washington Archdiocese expressed regret that a District of Columbia bill to legalize same-sex marriage was approved despite church opposition and without protecting religious freedom.Read More

Africans who were enslaved meant something to St. Peter Claver, and he gathered many volunteers to assist him in acts of mercy. It was these volunteers who altered, in a positive way, Peter Claver’s ministry when a ship was coming into port. The group also cared for the lepers and those with smallpox. On holy...Read More

As infants, Donald and Jack Hemling were developmentally delayed. By the time the boys were 15 months old, their parents - Caroline and Henry - had them tested. They were six months behind where they should have been.Read More

Catholic physician and author Walker Percy once posed the question, “What if you missed your life like a person misses a train?”Read More