On Sunday night, Jennifer Lawrence earned a Golden Globe for playing the title character in “Joy,” a film loosely based on the true story of inventor and single mom Joy Mangano. Despite Lawrence’s big win, the movie has received mixed reviews. I, for one, was a fan because I’m inspiredRead More

Being ministers of God's mercy, church members overcome "prejudice and rigidity," taking risks like Jesus did, Pope Francis said.Read More

Religion in general and the Catholic Church in particular have a historical reputation for inspiring wars and violence. Critics incessantly cite the Crusades as an example of this bellicose sentiment even though they were not led by the church nor initiated by the church. The Crusades began when the ByzantineRead More

Father Marshall served at St. Jerome in Baltimore and St. Joseph in Sykesville.Read More

Pope Francis, who has given the most interviews of any pope in history, is not the only pontiff to address the press.Read More

Maryknoll Sister Helen Scheel, a Baltimore native who taught in the western United States and returned to her hometown to work for a third world advocacy project, died Jan. 4 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining, N.YRead More

Heart is the key in “Rediscover Jesus.” He doesn’t preach; he doesn’t bludgeon. Rather, with a pastoral tone, Kelly speaks to readers’ hearts, guiding them in that journey, that rediscovery.Read More

In eight brief chapters, “Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith” presents both the story of O’Connor’s life and the story of how she became, O’Donnell writes, “perhaps the most celebrated American Catholic writer of the 20th century – and justly so.”Read More