So who are we? What are we? Are we our names? No. People get married, or join religious orders, and their name is changed, but who they are remains the same.Read More
WASHINGTON – A year after the Department of Homeland Security stopped deportations to Haiti for humanitarian reasons, the agency is being urged back off its recent resumption of deportations on the grounds that civil unrest, cholera and slow earthquake recovery make Haiti too dangerous.Read More
The Office of Schools Planning and Implementation, the Department of Schools and representatives from 12 schools met at Ellicott City’s Church of the Resurrection Feb. 7 to discuss the new Archdiocesan Collaborative Schools governance model.Read More
LIBERTYTOWN – In an age when social media and digital tools are sometimes cursed for their negative influence, a Frederick County parish and its Knights of Columbus chapter celebrated one of their own and his use of technology to spread the Word.Read More
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will celebrate the annual World Marriage Day Mass Feb. 13 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland, beginning at 3 p.m.Read More
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – A young parishioner in the Diocese of Knoxville who was upset over a Planned Parenthood presentation in her public high school classroom last fall said she never dreamed the issue would grow as it has.Read More
DUBLIN – An Irish bishop has called on parishioners to “reform and renew” the Catholic Church toward a future that is more transparent and in which leaders are accountable.Read More
WASHINGTON – Saying that he “cannot promote the new missal translation with integrity,” the former chairman of the music committee of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy has withdrawn from all speaking engagements related to the missal.Read More
In meeting with survivors of the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda, Bishop Denis J. Madden was struck by the inner turmoil endured by so many in the years following the conflict.Read More
CHICAGO – Illinois’ new law legalizing civil unions and giving them the same status as marriages in the state has the “potential for a serious conflict with religious liberty,” according to the state’s Catholic bishops.Read More
WILMINGTON, Del. – Bishop W. Francis Malooly said he hopes and prays that the Diocese of Wilmington’s recent settlement with survivors of clergy sexual abuse will begin the healing process for survivors and help the church “emerge purified and renewed.”Read More