DUBLIN, Ireland – A senior Irish bishop criticized the singling out of the Catholic Church for mishandling allegations of child sexual abuse.Read More

The men recently honored by Pope Benedict XVI with the title of “monsignor” are being recognized for being “totally available to the people of God,” Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien told a capacity crowd March 7 at Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.Read More

Add Briana Hutchen to the long, distinguished list of basketball players who used St. Frances Academy as an avenue to further their education. Hutchen, a senior from Randallstown, has guided the Panthers to Cumberland and another appearance in the Bishop Walsh Girls Invitational Tournament. Upon graduation, she will take her resume to Rutgers University, where...Read More

In reflecting on the consolidation of schools announced last week and the factors that led to this painful but necessary step, I realized that this decision is not unlike surgery. Both are painful but necessary for the body (this local Church and its historic school system) to heal. And, like the healing period that ensues,...Read More

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti urgently needs a Marshall Plan-style project with U.S. and European backing if the poverty-ridden country is to ever recover from the massive Jan. 12 earthquake, said the vicar general of the Salesians.Read More

VATICAN CITY – A greater presence of women in decision-making roles in the church might have helped remove the “veil of masculine secrecy” that covered priestly sex abuse cases, a front-page commentary in the Vatican newspaper said.Read More

This month brings a milestone for my social circle: for the first time, a childhood friend will become a mother.Read More

There’s a story told of a man who said that he knew someone who knew the exact year, month, day, and hour that he would die. His friend replied, “He must have been quite an ‘enlightened being.’ How did he come to know that?” The other man replied, “The judge told him!”Read More