Emily Kerstetter, a rising junior at Mount de Sales Academy, faces an uphill struggle as she recovers from injuries sustained in a July 11 bombing in Uganda.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The revised Vatican norms dealing with sexual abuse of minors by priests and other “more grave crimes” against church law contain several changes from the previous version published in 2001.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has revised its procedures for handling priestly sex abuse cases, streamlining disciplinary measures, extending the statute of limitations and defining child pornography as an act of sexual abuse of a minor.Read More
The Liturgy of the Word is composed of readings from sacred Scripture, the Homily, the Creed and the Prayer of the Faithful. The readings are not merely stories of long-ago events. In the readings, God speaks. God’s speech is not like ours; for God to speak is to reveal who God is. God speaks the...Read More
Television viewers around the country will get a chance to see the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Mercy Medical Center in action this summer.Read More
Medical Mission Sister Patricia Edelen, a Baltimore native, will celebrate her 60th jubilee Aug. 15 in Philadelphia, during a Mass and reception at the order’s North American headquarters, where she is currently facilities coordinator.Read More
I went to the St. Louis Clarksville Fair recently. Despite wearing a white hat, sunglasses, shorts and ‘sneakers’, I was still recognized by Mary Helfrich! How come Lois Lane never recognized Superman as Clark Kent? A pair of glasses made that much difference?Read More
One thing that I have noticed while visiting many of our churches is the lack of men in the congregation. This puzzled me to the point that I decided to ask several male associates what they did on Sunday morning. The answers ranged from washing the car to cutting the grass to just lying around...Read More
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien named Dr. Barbara Edmondson, principal of School of the Incarnation in Gambrills, interim Superintendent of Schools.Read More
WASHINGTON – In the fall of 1995, a thin, fast soccer player named Oguchi Onyewu, wearing No. 5 on his red- and black-striped jersey, helped lead St. Andrew Apostle Parish in Silver Spring, Md., to a 4-1 win in the Catholic Youth Organization’s varsity Mid-Atlantic Championship in Washington.Read More