Add Briana Hutchen to the long, distinguished list of basketball players who used St. Frances Academy as an avenue to further their education. Hutchen, a senior from Randallstown, has guided the Panthers to Cumberland and another appearance in the Bishop Walsh Girls Invitational Tournament. Upon graduation, she will take her resume to Rutgers University, where...Read More
In reflecting on the consolidation of schools announced last week and the factors that led to this painful but necessary step, I realized that this decision is not unlike surgery. Both are painful but necessary for the body (this local Church and its historic school system) to heal. And, like the healing period that ensues,...Read More
PHOENIX – The Catholic bishops of Arizona have expressed concern that new legislative proposals requiring greater enforcement of immigration laws by local police could harm public safety and separate families.Read More
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti urgently needs a Marshall Plan-style project with U.S. and European backing if the poverty-ridden country is to ever recover from the massive Jan. 12 earthquake, said the vicar general of the Salesians.Read More
VATICAN CITY – A greater presence of women in decision-making roles in the church might have helped remove the “veil of masculine secrecy” that covered priestly sex abuse cases, a front-page commentary in the Vatican newspaper said.Read More
DENVER – The decision to refuse re-enrollment at a Boulder Catholic school to two children of lesbian parents was the only outcome that was fair to the children, their teachers, school parents and “the authentic faith of the church,” said Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput.Read More
There’s a story told of a man who said that he knew someone who knew the exact year, month, day, and hour that he would die. His friend replied, “He must have been quite an ‘enlightened being.’ How did he come to know that?” The other man replied, “The judge told him!”Read More
Lent is a time of spiritual pilgrimage. Our readings during Sunday Liturgy reveal that Jesus is always moving to the people or with the people. We find Jesus deep in prayer in the desert, moving among angels as he combats the devil in his tricky sneaky ways.Read More
ANNAPOLIS – Shouts of “unite for life!” echoed through the streets of downtown Annapolis March 8 as hundreds of people walked from St. Mary to the State House during the 31st annual Maryland March for Life.Read More