Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation on the family is an example of the “ordinary magisterium” – papal teaching – to which Catholics are obliged to give “religious submission of will and intellect,” said an article in the Vatican newspaper.Read More

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop J. Terry Steib of Memphis, Tennessee, and has appointed as his successor Auxiliary Bishop Martin D. Holley of Washington.Read More

“Mother Teresa was no plastic saint,” said Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, postulator of Blessed Teresa’s sainthood cause.Read More

I don’t know about you, but I found it very inspiring this year to watch the Olympics. And even with the many medals the United States won – with many Marylanders (Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky being the most prominent of them) – what has been most impressive to meRead More

The Apostolic Penitentiary has nothing to do with a jail cell and everything to do with God’s mercy.Read More

I can’t quite decide how I feel about one of the major themes of this year’s presidential election: Death and Destruction. That is, “Our country has been/is being/will be destroyed and we’re all going to DIE.”Yes, that’s hyperbolic, but is it far off base?Donald Trump’s rise was fueled to aRead More

Three men with ties to the Archdiocese of Baltimore made Olympic history with gold medal performances.Read More

The 1996 law put welfare funds into block grants for states to distribute as they saw fit.Read More