In your Sept. 11 issue, you published three articles on abortion: criticism of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her statements about when life begins; the Republican Party platform which “decried the practice of abortion and repeated its call for a human life amendment to the U.S. Constitution”; and George Weigel’s column posing abortion questions to...Read More
For months, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Baynesville music director Thomas Bozek had been anxiously awaiting the arrival of his church’s new pipe organ the way a father anticipates a baby.Read More
When lifelong Washington, D.C., area native Bill Hocking recently moved to Annapolis to be closer to family members, he was on a spiritual quest.Read More
Two demonstrators were arrested for trespassing at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore Sept. 14.Read More
WASHINGTON – Catholic interreligious leaders mourned the death of Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, who after his father’s death assumed the leadership of the Nation of Islam, a controversial U.S. “Black Muslim” group, and guided it toward more conventional Islamic faith and practice.Read More
I was gratified to read the front page article “Knights Take Stand” (CR, Aug. 14). The article is right on about the topic of Catholics supporting political candidates that are pro-abortion, but let’s get real. For the 30-plus years it has been the Democratic Party that worships at the altar of abortion rights.Read More
John E. “Jack” Vana, 70, attended Holy Cross School in Federal Hill for all eight years, was married at Holy Cross Church 48 years ago and still helps out with parish sour beef and dumpling dinners. Elizabeth Linski was baptized and married at the church, attended school at Holy Cross and worked at the parish...Read More
VATICAN CITY – Catholic relief agencies and parishes worldwide are responding to the devastation in Haiti, battered by four deadly hurricanes.Read More
LOURDES, France – From an altar ringed with wheelchairs and stretchers, Pope Benedict XVI encouraged thousands of sick people at Lourdes to seek solace in Mary’s smile and maternal love.Read More
STE.-ANNE-DE-BEAUPRE, Quebec – Flanked by the bishops of Quebec, Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte of Montreal announced he was handing back his 1996 Order of Canada medal to protest that the same award was given to an abortion physician this summer.Read More