Greeting uncertainty with optimism June 15, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, The Domestic Church Uncertainty can be scary. But just because the future is unclear doesn’t mean that what lies ahead is terrible.
Supreme Court says federal law protects LGBT workers from discrimination June 15, 2020By Carol Zimmermann Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Supreme Court, World News In a 6-3 vote June 15, the Supreme Court said LGBT people are protected from job discrimination by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Maryland bishops call for action against racism June 15, 2020By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Racial Justice The bishops who make up the governing board of the Maryland Catholic Conference released a statement June 15 that recalls “our own Church’s past sins and failings and admit to them freely.”
Counselors find new ways to connect June 14, 2020By Mary K. Tilghman Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News Zoom sessions have become the norm, along with email blasts, virtual office hours and old-fashioned phone calls.
Baltimore parishioners overjoyed as they keep a pastor and gain a bishop June 13, 2020By Tim Swift Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Local News, News Come August, he’ll have gained the title “His Excellency,” but for the parishioners of Sacred Heart of Jesus-Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Highalndtown and its mission church of St. Patrick in Fells Point, he’ll remain and always be “Padre Bruce.”
St. Anthony’s feast day, feed the hummingbirds, the perfect egg sandwich, and more (7 Quick Takes) June 13, 2020By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window Even though St. Anthony may have had a way with words, he is quoted as saying, “Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.”
Silence in the domestic church June 12, 2020By Archbishop William E. Lori Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Coronavirus For a parish church to be a place of prayer, there have to be times of silence. For a domestic church to be a place of prayer and formation, there also needs to be periods of silence.
In challenging time, priests lean on their own loss as they bury the dead June 12, 2020By Paul McMullen Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Works of Mercy Sensitive pastoral care from priests in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, coupled with the support of funeral homes and cemeteries, has comforted many families during the coronavirus pandemic
Catholic activist has been anti-hunger, anti-war, not ‘antifa,’ friends say June 12, 2020By Rhina Guidos Filed Under: News, Racial Justice, World News Catholic activist Martin Gugino long has been anti-war, anti-hunger, anti-violence, when it comes to opposing social ills, but the one “anti” that doesn’t fit the bill is the “antifa” moniker President Donald Trump tried to pin on him in a June 9 tweet, friends say.
Adapting to coronavirus pandemic as teacher, wife, mom June 12, 2020By Brooke Mosca Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Schools Andrea Sommers will never forget her 10th year as a teacher at St. John Regional Catholic School in Frederick. She teaches social studies, English language arts and religion to 82 fifthand sixth-graders. Since mid-March, the coronavirus pandemic has forced her to do all that from home, which she shares with her husband, Dwight, a captain […]
State Department report: China among worst offenders of religious freedom June 11, 2020By Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, World News Top U.S. State Department officials singled out China as one of the world’s worst offenders of religious freedom because it had subjected religious minorities to imprisonment and forced labor.
Newly named St. Louis archbishop shares mom’s advice to him: ‘Don’t get a big head’ June 11, 2020By Rebecca Drake Catholic News Service Filed Under: Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski, Feature, Local News, News, World News Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski traveled from Springfield to the St. Louis Archdiocese as its newly named archbishop with this advice from his mother, Jean: “Don’t get a big head.”
