AP photo Fourteen years ago, one of the my closest childhood friends, Anthony Jamaal Thomas, was stabbed and killed for his Eddie Bauer jacket coming out of a movie theater in a mall. For a few days after, Anthony was mentioned in headlines across the Washington area and, then, was forgotten as the media movedRead More

 October Baby is the movie few people want, but its message can't be pushed to the side.The film, which opens today in nearly 400 theaters across the country, is about a teenage girl, Hannah, who discovers she survived an abortion. She goes on a trip to try and find theRead More

Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien expressed disappointment March 23, after learning that the board of directors at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson had recommended to Catholic Health Initiatives that the hospital transfer ownership to the University of Maryland Medical System.Read More

Thirty-some years ago, I spent a fair amount of time on religious freedom issues: which meant, in those simpler days, trying to pry Lithuanian priests and nuns out of Perm Camp 36 and other GULAG islands. Had you told me in 1982 that one of my “clients,” the Jesuit Sigitas Tamkevicius, would be archbishop of...Read More