ST. PAUL, Minn. – While K.J. McDonald supported his party as a delegate at the Republican National Convention, his four sisters protested the war outside the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, where the convention was held.Read More
WALKERSVILLE – Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien lifted a pair of gigantic scissors and playfully gave them a few quick snips in the air before cutting a bright red ribbon that officially marked the opening of a new $2.8 million parish center at St. Timothy in Walkersville Sept. 7.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Choosing men and women from every part of the world and from a wide variety of professional spheres, Pope Benedict XVI nominated 32 voting members, 41 experts and 37 observers for the upcoming world Synod of Bishops.Read More
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – The Catholic Church in Nicaragua must educate the country’s Catholic majority to recognize that politics is not about power, but about serving the common good, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More
WASHINGTON – Upholding its long-standing view that life begins at conception, the Republican Party decried the practice of abortion and repeated its call for a human life amendment to the U.S. Constitution in its 2008 political platform.Read More
WASHINGTON – A dialogue group made up of Catholics and Orthodox Jews has issued a statement defending the “special standing” of marriage between a man and a woman against efforts to classify same-sex unions as marriages.Read More
There was a time when nearly every student’s eyes drifted to the classroom clock as they began to count the seconds to the final school bell of the day.Read More
Sleek, canoe-like boats adorned with intricately carved dragon heads and tails will slice through the waters of the Inner Harbor in a spectacle dating to ancient China.Read More
The teachings of Pope John Paul II will be explored at the Catholic Medical Association’s 77th annual Educational Conference, which will be held in Baltimore Oct. 8-11.Read More