NEW YORK – Vigorous public debate about the war in Afghanistan is preferable to ignoring the situation there and confirms that combat deaths are not in vain, according to U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.Read More
A funeral Mass for Margaret Dempsey McManus, an alumna of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, was offered Oct. 19 at Our Lady of Grace in Parkton. McManus died Oct. 15 at her Monkton residence. She was 89.Read More
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien called on Catholic physicians and medical professionals to “persevere and stay the course” in standing up for the sanctity of life even in the face of “widespread and vociferous opposition.”Read More
DUBLIN, Ireland – Irish Catholics observed World Mission Sunday Oct. 18 with prayers of hope for a kidnapped Irish priest, Columban Father Michael Sinnott, and prayers of thanks for the release of kidnapped aid workers in the Darfur region of Sudan.Read More
When Father J. Collin Poston arrived at St. Mary’s in Hagerstown a year ago as administrator, he was struck by the parish’s deep spirituality.Read More
VATICAN CITY - The Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry invited the sick and suffering of the world to help the church through prayer and by offering up their suffering during the Year for Priests.Read More
LIMA, Peru – Ever since the Spanish conquistadors set off across the Andes in search of El Dorado, outsiders have sought their fortune in the Amazon. Rubber tapping, logging, mining, oil drilling and ranching have brought riches to some and ruin to others.Read More
Mary Ellen Heibel, a parishioner of St. Mary in Annapolis whose cancer disappeared after she sought the intercession of Blessed Francis X. Seelos, died of pneumonia Oct. 9. She was 71.Read More
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s decision not to continue a stay on the release to newspapers of Diocese of Bridgeport documents in settled sexual abuse cases doesn’t quite close the door on the issue.Read More