Cardinal Dolan to meet with Cuban president, church leaders during visit February 7, 2020By Rhina Guidos Filed Under: News, World News New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan is set to meet with the president of the Republic of Cuba during a Feb. 7-12 trip to the island nation, which includes a visit with the cardinal of Havana and other Cuban prelates.
Screen time pays off for product of OLPH School in Ellicott City February 7, 2020By Erik Zygmont Filed Under: Local News, News Between worship at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, three AP classes at DeMatha, a spot on the Stags’ baseball team, Howard County rec league basketball and entertaining his younger sister, Ava, Noah Johnson found the time to, as he put it, “perfect my craft” and become the youngest-ever winner of Madden NFL 20 Challenge.
Monsignor Aiken, who oversaw transformation of Glyndon parish, dies at 75 February 7, 2020By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries Monsignor Lloyd E. Aiken, who spent most of his priesthood at Sacred Heart in Glyndon, the parish of his youth, died at Stella Maris Hospice Feb. 5, a year to the day after informing the people he served that he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer.
New head of pro-life outreach takes helm as wall separates two sides of moral divide February 6, 2020By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life One of America’s biggest cultural and moral divides is about to be embodied in a shared wall of two Baltimore buildings with very different missions.
Movie Review: ‘Gretel and Hansel’ February 6, 2020By Kurt Jensen Filed Under: Movie & Television Reviews, News, World News The film covers the familiar outlines of the old story, with two children negotiating a dark and very foggy forest as they escape a famine-scarred home life in search of food and security.
Among calls for unity, Trump criticizes Democrats at prayer breakfast February 6, 2020By Dennis Sadowski Filed Under: News, World News As three members of Congress and a well-known economist called for healing, unity and “love of neighbor” at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump broke ranks and criticized Democrats for impeaching him while hailing Republicans who acquitted him.
Sister who works with Philadelphia homeless attends State of the Union February 6, 2020By Carol Zimmermann Filed Under: News, World News Mercy Sister Mary Scullion, co-founder and executive director of Project HOME, an organization that helps the homeless in Philadelphia, was one of the many guests who attended the Feb. 4 State of the Union, which she hoped would draw attention to homelessness and inspire federal aid to alleviate it.
Human Rights Watch says deportees killed after return to El Salvador February 6, 2020By David Agren Filed Under: News, World News At least 138 Salvadorans have been murdered after being sent back to their violent Central American country from the United States, according to a report from Human Rights Watch.
Trump highlights pro-life, school choice issues in State of the Union February 5, 2020By Julie Asher Filed Under: News, Respect Life, World News Less than two weeks after pro-life leaders welcomed President Donald Trump to the speakers’ platform at the Jan. 24 March for Life on the National Mall, these leaders were praising a call he issued in his State of the Union address Feb. 4 that Congress immediately ban late-term abortion.
How St. Michael the Archangel became the Ministry of Brewing February 5, 2020By Tim Swift Filed Under: Local News, News How did one of Baltimore’s most historic Catholic churches – built in 1852 to serve German immigrants and once led by St. John Neumann – become a brewery?
‘He was a great,’ Pope Francis says of St. John Paul II February 5, 2020By Cindy Wooden Filed Under: Feature, News, World News St. John Paul II taught the world that truly great faith and holiness dwell in “the normality of a person who lives in profound communion with Christ,” Pope Francis said in a new book.
Catholic high schools continue to be more affordable than most private schools February 3, 2020By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Schools The 19 Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore continue to be more affordable than all but a handful of their private peers, as evidenced by the Catholic Review’s annual survey of cost of attendance among other nonpublic high schools in the archdiocese.
