News

Catholic liturgies avoid Christmas decorations, carols in Advent

Father Rice said it's important for Catholics to engage in spiritual preparation for Christmas even in the middle of all the other preparations.
Read More

Defend God’s image by defending the Rohingya, pope urges

Each human being is created in the image and likeness of God, yet so often people desecrate that image with violence as seen in the treatment of Myanmar's Rohingya minority, Pope Francis said.
Read More

Charm City Challenge features BCL’s best prospects

Some of the nation’s premier high school basketball programs and players will be on display Dec. 2 at UMBC’s RAC Arena, site of the inaugural Charm City Challenge.
Read More

Pope arrives in Bangladesh, praises country’s welcome of Rohingya

From the Dhaka international airport, Pope Francis went directly to the National Martyrs' Memorial, which honors those who died in the 1971 war in which Bangladesh separated from Pakistan.
Read More

Names & Numbers: Local authors publish new books

This installment of Names & Numbers features local authors whose works are available as Christmas books.
Read More

Archdiocese of Baltimore raises $545,000 for hurricane relief

The archdiocese has designated that the U.S. Virgin Islands receive $100,000 and Puerto Rico receive $200,000 of the Baltimore collection.
Read More

Fear and loathing: Rohingya crisis shows danger of identity politics

The situation of the Rohingya is an extreme example of what happens when one's ethnic or religious identity incites such strong fear or pride or that it creates ironclad categories of "us and them."
Read More

2,400 faith leaders ask Senate to nix tax cut legislation

More than 2,400 religious faith leaders, including hundreds of Catholic women religious and dozens of priests, asked the U.S. Senate to vote down tax cut legislation.
Read More

The Least of These: Families welcome neglected children

Catholic families in the Archdiocese of Baltimore are providing loving homes for neglected children.
Read More

Washington Archdiocese takes transit system to court over ad guidelines

The Archdiocese of Washington filed suit in federal court Nov. 28 over the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's advertising guidelines after the transit system rejected an Advent and Christmas advertisement.
Read More

Movie Review: ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’

This charming fact-based historical drama tells the origin story of Victorian author Charles Dickens' beloved 1843 novella, "A Christmas Carol."
Read More

Buddhists, Christians must reclaim values that lead to peace, pope says

Christians and Buddhists are called by faith to overcome evil with goodness and violence with peace, Pope Francis said.
Read More
1 190 191 192 193 194 1,759
En español »