Charles Dickens’ classic, “Great Expectations,” opens on Christmas Eve. It introduces us to Pip, an orphan who was being raised by his sister and her husband. As a boy, Pip didn’t think he’d amount to much but his chance encounter with a convict (Magwitch) and with a rich elderly woman (Miss Havisham) and her daughter...Read More
A National Black Catholic Men’s Conference was held recently at the Laurel Holiday Inn. I am known as one who does not attend such conferences but something drew me to this one and I am glad that I attended. I am also glad and proud to be a “Black Catholic man.” Can you as a...Read More
With both vice president candidates calling themselves Catholic, that should have been a good teaching point for our Sunday sermons before the election.Read More
After months of discussions between invested parties, the Archdiocese of Baltimore confirmed that St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Towson will continue to operate as a Catholic hospital after its anticipated Dec. 1 sale to the University of Maryland Medical System.Read More
Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore will observe the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Dec. 8 – a holy day of obligation.Read More
Austin Luera had just begun his first semester at the University of South Carolina when the 18-year-old Loyola Blakefield graduate learned that his bone marrow was a match for an 8-year-old boy battling leukemia.Read More