HAGERSTOWN – A 13-year-old girl with pink hair, black fingernails, a shiny silver belt and a hip-hop cap sat two pews in front of an elderly woman with a black veil over her head during a special Tridentine Mass celebrated Sept. 11 at St. Mary in Hagerstown.Read More

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Several victims of clerical sexual abuse, a U.S.-based organization for survivors and a U.S.-based human rights organization formally asked the International Criminal Court to investigate Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials on charges they bear a responsibility for the abuse of children by Catholic priests around the world.Read More

The Office of African American Catholic Ministries of the Archdiocese of Baltimore released the names of the recipients of the first Daniel Rudd Scholarship. The Daniel Rudd Scholarship Fund is administered by the office and board of African American Catholic Ministries. The scholarship named after the founder of the National Black Catholic Congress is open...Read More

The second coming was great, wasn’t it? No, I don’t mean the second coming of Christ. That hasn’t happened, yet, at least to my knowledge. Although it would be just like me. The world ended and I was too busy to notice!Read More

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has given the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X a formal “doctrinal preamble” listing several principles they must agree with in order to move toward full reconciliation with church.Read More

WASHINGTON – Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the late Vatican nuncio to the United States, “viewed his diplomatic vocation, as an ambassador of the vicar of the crucified one, as an extension of the invitation to mercy, reconciliation, unity, peace and life inherent in the Triumph of the Cross,” Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York said...Read More

With the memory of 9/11 still an aching scar on the nation’s psyche, and in the wake of the many recent natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and floods, the government and people of the United States must develop a “culture of resiliency” in order to successfully absorb future onslaughts.Read More

EMMITSBURG – Mount St. Mary’s University held a housewarming of glorious proportions Sept. 13 for its historic, newly restored Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, the acknowledged heart of its seminary and college community.Read More