When your child asks about abortion April 4, 2016By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window, Respect Life Dinner is on the stove and I’m setting the table when our second grader walks into the kitchen.He is carrying a postcard he’s pulled out of the pile of mail.“Is this what we were talking about?” he asks, and he points to a picture on the postcard.I glance down and
Essex parish celebrates renovated worship space March 28, 2016By Paul McMullen Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News St. Clare renovated its worship space with hands-on help from parishioners.
Coffee & Doughnuts with Ray Kelly March 23, 2016By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Local News, News Ray Kelly is the Director of Community Relations for the No Boundaries Coalition and a member of the pastoral council at St. Peter Claver.
Amen: Daddy-daughter time March 8, 2016By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Amen, Amen Matysek Commentary, Commentary ‘Woof-woofs,’ polkas and prayers offer life lessons for father of 15-month-old girl.
Harbaugh discusses faith in adversity at sold-out Catholic Men’s Conference March 7, 2016By Erik Zygmont Filed Under: Local News, News We choose hope or hopeless, Harbaugh said. “We work together or alone. We turn our face humbly to our God, or we turn our back.”
Interfaith and ecumenical delegation from Baltimore meets Pope Francis March 2, 2016By Christopher Gunty Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Local News, News An interfaith and ecumenical delegation from Baltimore met with Pope Francis March 2 in Rome following the pontiff’s general audience.
Interfaith and ecumenical leaders ready to meet pope and ask prayers for Baltimore February 29, 2016By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Local News, News “It’s an opportunity for us to focus collectively and uniquely on a variety of issues and possible resolutions,” Father Donald Sterling said.
Archbishop Lori remembers Justice Scalia February 16, 2016By Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Supreme Court “He followed what the church believes and teaches,” Archbishop Lori said.
Scalia, longest-serving justice on current Supreme Court, was champion of originalism February 15, 2016By Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Scalia said it wasn’t his job to make policy or law, but to “say only what the law provides.”
A new home: Fleeing violence and oppression, new immigrants find help in Baltimore February 12, 2016By Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News The Catholic Church is providing a welcome and a place of refuge for them at a time when many in the wider society want them to go home.
Our Back Pages: Touting marriage in the 1890s February 11, 2016By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Our Back Pages Unless a man and woman are willing to give up their individuality for one another in marriage, Father Rooker said, they have no right to marry
Mid-Atlantic Congress attracts largest crowd ever February 10, 2016By Christopher Gunty Filed Under: Evangelization, Local News, News “When you’re a disciple in the presence of the Eucharist, something happens to you,” Cardinal DiNardo said. “You’re transformed.”