One day in early summer, Mary Alice and I stopped at a friend’s farm/greenhouse to purchase flowers. On the way to the greenhouses, we passed the chickens, goats, horses, pigs, cattle and one donkey.

As the bells pealed from the domed tower at St. Mary’s Church in Knightsville Sunday morning, parishioners and guests ...

Jesuit Father John Conley, a theology professor at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, is pictured in this undated photo ...