WASHINGTON – In a message marking Respect Life Month in October, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities called on U.S. Catholics to join Pope Benedict XVI in a worldwide vigil “for all nascent human life” on the Saturday evening of Thanksgiving weekend.Read More
After 10 varsity field hockey players graduated in May from Towson’s Notre Dame Preparatory School, Maggie Huether wasn’t sure what this season would bring.Read More
Rev. Joe Ehrmann, a former Baltimore Colt Football Player, was at Yeardley Love’s funeral at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore. Joe noted: “Sadly, Yeardley Love was only one of four women murdered by intimate partners that day. Who knows how many others were raped, battered, sexually abused, harassed or exploited by men...Read More
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – President Barack Obama said Sept. 28 he came to his Christian faith as an adult “because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead, being my brothers’ and sisters’ keeper, treating others as they would treat me.”Read More
A “healthy” and “ethical” capitalism can coexist, but such a capitalism “must never be satisfied or justified when 14.3 percent of Americans are living in poverty,” said Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien in a Sept. 25 homily at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore.Read More
WASHINGTON – Hundreds of Catholic Charities leaders and staffers took to Capitol Hill Sept. 28 to promote new legislation that they believe could transform the U.S. approach to fighting poverty.Read More
WASHINGTON – Haitian bishops agreed Sept. 24 to the creation of a broad-based reconstruction program involving church partners from around the world that will guide how parishes and Catholic schools destroyed in the January earthquake are rebuilt.Read More
The Archdiocese of Baltimore is fully committed to the safety of the children entrusted to its care and to reaching out to victims of sexual abuse to offer them and their families counseling and pastoral care.Read More
As Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien sat next to Capuchin Franciscan Father Paul Zaborowski, parishioners of St. Ambrose Catholic Church made it their collective duty to share their upbeat style of worship with their honored guest.Read More
Decades after they graduated from Baltimore City’s Mercy High School, Eileen Kohles Baird and Stacy Baird still wear their Mercy High School rings with pride.Read More
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – A Seton Hall University student was killed and four other people were wounded early Sept. 25 when a gunman returned to an off-campus party where he reportedly had been refused entry and began firing into the room.Read More