On Nov. 7, the world’s oldest and largest historically African American Catholic lay organization celebrated 100 years of service to God and his people. The Knights of Peter Claver was founded Nov. 7, 1909 in Mobile, Ala., by four Josephite priests and three lay men. During this time in U.S. history, people of African descent...Read More

There’s a parable told of an angel walking into a city just as the plague was walking out of the city. The angel said to the plague: “You should be ashamed of yourself for killing all those people!” The plague replied: “I only killed a few. Fear killed the rest.”Read More

It was a difficult decision for the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa to suspend its wild rice harvest last fall.Read More

Why am I here? This is a question I must answer for myself as I begin my sixth year as Rector of the Seminary of Our Lady of Providence in Rhode Island. It’s a question I have prayed about for the last 13 years as a seminary faculty member, a question I bring to daily...Read More

The Premier See is ready to take the BBQ Capital of the World by storm. A delegation of 261 from the Archdiocese of Baltimore will attend the biennial National Catholic Youth Conference in Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 19 to 21. A convention center and the Sprint Center arena will be filled with 20,000 Catholic youths...Read More

The U.S. bishops approved the English translation and U.S. adaptations of five final sections of the Roman Missal in voting on the second day of their annual fall general assembly in Baltimore.Read More

Despite the concern voiced by some bishops about the document's pastoral tone and content, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops approved a pastoral letter on marriage Nov. 17.Read More

When Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien referred to the rector of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen as “the indomitable, irrepressible Monsignor Robert Armstrong,” hundreds of parishioners interrupted the archbishop's Nov. 15 cathedral homily with applause.Read More