Since 2003, the Archdiocese of Baltimore has trained 292,639 adults who volunteer and/or work with children and young people. In addition, more than 44,000 students per year have been trained in child abuse prevention and reporting since 2003, as part of religion class in Catholic schools or in faith formation classes in our parishes.

Father Doyle fields questions about a pastor’s duties and the use of incense at Mass.

As I was walking our boys toward the school entrance yesterday morning, Leo ran on ahead to get inside. Daniel stayed back with me, but when we were still a distance from the school, he said, “Can you walk back to the car now?”

It’s not often I get one-on-one time with one of my nieces or nephews, and I love learning more about each of them.

Christmas does come every day because Christ comes every day. And when you and I live and love, give and forgive, the light of Christ comes through us.

As I adjusted to life with the few necessities that would prepare our food, I kind of liked the simplicity of having less.

God gives us each different talents. Some of us are better with cats or catechesis than catapults, but there’s a role for each of us.

At the end of each school day, you might think that our children happily share every detail about recess, math class, lunch, what their teacher told them, and how many friends they made.

The social media space can become so enticing that we strangely distort ourselves in order to conform to it, and we prefer its artificiality to the density, challenge, and opportunity of the actual world.

Sometimes when God gives us a sign, it is literally a sign. At least that’s what happened to us.