“Beautiful” and “very majestic” were the words Guilford resident Madeleine Ranieri used to describe the Passion Sunday Mass celebrated by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien March 16 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Homeland.Read More

VATICAN CITY – Published just a month before Pope Benedict XVI’s scheduled arrival in the United States, the Vatican’s official program for the April 15-20 papal trip to Washington and New York was all that had been promised and a tiny bit more.Read More

WASHINGTON – While a majority of U.S. Catholics say they abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent, slightly less than half follow other customary Lenten practices.Read More

The following are the Baltimore Catholic League’s all league teams.Read More

VATICAN CITY – In today’s globalized culture, the social effects of sin are greater than ever before and deserve the church’s urgent attention, a Vatican official said.Read More

A funeral Mass for Sister Mary Theresia Bednarik, S.S.N.D., was offered March 8 in the chapel at Villa Notre Dame in Wilton, Conn. Sister Mary Theresia – a native of New York City – died March 3. She was 95.Read More

BOGOTA, Colombia – A Venezuelan archbishop criticized Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for escalating tensions after Colombian soldiers killed guerrillas on Ecuadorean soil.Read More

A funeral Mass will be offered for Doris E. Cramblitt, the mother of Monsignor Richard Cramblitt, at 10 a.m. on March 6 at Shrine of the Sacred Heart, Mount Washington, where Monsignor Cramblitt serves as pastor.Read More