The fourth annual Knights of Columbus 10K run and one-mile fun walk and the kids’have fun run sponsored by the St. Louis the King Knights of Columbus, will be held Sept. 1 at 8 a.m. at the Shrine of St. Anthony, 12290 Folly Quarter Road in Ellicott City.Read More
The Catholic Daughters of the Americas’ Court Infant Jesus of Prague of Woodlawn, has been supporting a 38-year-old seminarian who was recently ordained.Read More
Cumberland native Sister Dolores Hudson, O.S.U., was one of 22 Ursuline Sisters who celebrated 50 years as an Ursuline Sister of Louisville, Ken.Read More
Father Adam J. Parker, pastor of Church of the Ascension, Halethorpe, has been named vice chancellor for the Archdiocese of Baltimore and will serve as secretary to Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, effective Sept. 17.Read More
A funeral Mass for Sister Mary Doris Flynn, I.H.M., was offered Aug. 7 at Our Lady of Peace Residence in Pennsylvania. Sister Mary Doris died Aug. 4. She was 87.Read More
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Too much wealth and greed could “seriously compromise” one’s salvation, Pope Benedict XVI said, adding that the real treasure humanity should strive for is Christ.Read More
The Baltimore-based Ground Zero Car Club will present a custom car show Aug. 11 from noon to 5 p.m. to benefit the restoration fund at Shrine of St. Alphonsus, Baltimore.Read More
VATICAN CITY – During his visit to Austria, Pope Benedict XVI plans to stop at a Holocaust memorial in Vienna and to celebrate the 850th anniversary of Austria’s most important Marian shrine in Mariazell.Read More
As Rosalie Dohm of Woodbridge, Va. climbed the stairs to the nation’s first cathedral Aug. 2, she thought it was unusual that Cardinal William H. Keeler was personally greeting each of the visitors from her parish tour group. The 66-year-old parishioner of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Lakeridge, Va., then found herself in the spotlight when...Read More
During the many months Monsignor Arthur Valenzano battled leukemia, there was one day the longtime pastor of St. John in Westminster remembers as his absolute worst.Read More
MEXICO CITY – A group of priests from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca denounced what they say was excessive force by police to keep protesters away from an annual culture fair.Read More
SOFIA, Bulgaria – Sergei Antonov, accused by Pope John Paul II’s would-be assassin of being part of a Soviet-bloc plot to kill the pope in 1981, was found dead in his Sofia apartment. Bulgarian police confirmed the death of the 58-year-old Antonov Aug. 1, but said his death had occurred several days earlier. He apparently...Read More