A previously announced plan that would have resulted in The Cardinal Gibbons School and The Seton Keough High School sharing a president has been “placed on hold.”Read More
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – A Catholic aid official expressed concern about human rights in the country in the wake of a military coup, which he called the expected outcome of a political crisis.Read More
Christ famously went to the shore to call St. Peter and others to be his disciples. A Western Maryland parish named in the famous fisherman’s honor has been doing the same thing at Deep Creek Lake for decades even though it had no home to call its own.Read More
A funeral Mass for Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Mary Mark Carnes, a former principal of St. Rita School in Dundalk, was offered June 30 at St. Rita. Sister Mary Mark died June 26; she was 82.Read More
WASHINGTON – A legal expert from Jesuit-run Fordham University School of Law in New York was relieved the Supreme Court did not overturn the 2006 reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, but he also believes the historic 1965 law was only given a stay.Read More
It was after daily Mass at St. Louis in Clarksville when Monsignor Joseph L. Luca asked a young communicant if he had ever considered becoming a priest.Read More
I do not agree with the headline of Stephen Kent’s column, “Murder in a church on Pentecost sacrilegious” (CR, June 11). From a Catholic Web site, I learned that a murder in a sacred place is sacrilege. How can a place that permitted an abortionist to hold the office of “deacon” be sacred? If a...Read More
WASHINGTON – The board of directors of Public Broadcasting Service voted June 16 to stop its member stations from airing new religious programming, though existing programs on PBS affiliate stations will continue to be broadcast.Read More
JERUSALEM – Although most Arabs did not accept Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s terms for accepting Palestinian statehood, in reality he could not have said anything different, said an official of the Jerusalem Interchurch Center.Read More
The people of the Grotto of Lourdes and the town of Emmitsburg will surely miss Father John Lombardi, who has been our chaplain. He is a young and vibrant servant of the Lord, kind and gentle to all whom he encountered, especially the young. To the towns of Hancock and Little Orleans, where he will...Read More