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January 19, 2012

Part of the problem

The Catholic Review has addressed the issue of insensate inner city violence (CR/May 29). Would any concerned not accept that there subsists in the city the fundamental problem of the breakdown of families? And in accepting this tragic reality, is it not reasonable to first address, with enduring rapidity, Planned Parenthood, which has been unrelenting...
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January 19, 2012

Best position it to trust God

In the May 22 issue, The Catholic Review printed a brief article about the Vatican astronomer saying it’s okay to believe in aliens, a position that was criticized in a letter by Louie Verrecchio on May 29. Mr. Verrecchio says that all forms of life are sinful and in need of redemption.
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January 19, 2012

Death penalty is worth less than a second

I noticed that you devoted 18 column-inches to cover the death penalty in Maryland (CR/May 29) but buried Senator Kennedy’s support for abortion in the last three quarters of a column-inch of an article praising the senator. Assuming all life is equal, I compared the total number of executions in the United States since 1977...
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January 19, 2012

High-flying IND grad has 10 years of straight As

Maria Kroat was a second-grader the last time she saw a “B” on her report card. For the next decade, the parishioner of Our Lady of Hope in Dundalk earned nothing but straight As – making her one of the top students at Our Lady of Hope-St. Luke School in Dundalk and the Institute of...
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January 19, 2012

Pro-life law professor stunned by priest’s refusal of Communion

WASHINGTON – For Pepperdine law professor Douglas Kmiec, a constitutional lawyer who often writes on religion in the public square, the situation had uncomfortable echoes of the last presidential election cycle – a priest was refusing to give Communion to someone on the basis of the man’s support of a candidate.
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January 19, 2012

Bodies of parents of St. Therese of Lisieux exhumed in France

WARSAW, Poland – The remains of the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, France, have been exhumed as French Catholics await the couple’s expected beatification.
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January 19, 2012

Cardinal George asks Father Pfleger to take leave from parish post

CHICAGO – A Chicago Catholic priest criticized for a speech in which he mocked Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York has been temporarily removed from his pastoral duties by Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago.
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January 19, 2012

Cardinal Kasper gives upbeat report on meetings with Russian Orthodox

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican’s top ecumenist gave an upbeat report on his recent meetings with leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church, saying historic tensions have been replaced by an eagerness to cooperate.
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January 19, 2012

Vatican upholds excommunications; priest, parish board to appeal

WASHINGTON – The Vatican’s doctrinal congregation has backed St. Louis Archbishop Raymond L. Burke’s excommunication of members of a parish board of directors and the priest they hired, but the excommunicated Catholics vowed June 2 to appeal that decision.
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January 19, 2012

Holy Family students walks in public for first time

Most moms cry when their child walks across stage to receive a diploma, yet Kim Guy’s tears spilled for the fact that her eighth-grade son was walking at all.
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January 19, 2012

Matrimony: Sacrament at the Service of Communion

Our wedding was a first for both of our families. Everyone was learning as we made the plans, and everyone had different expectations. You may have had a similar experience; the bride has ideas of what will be perfect, but her parents see it as an occasion to celebrate family relationships or impress the neighbors,...
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January 19, 2012

Holy Orders: A Sacrament at the Service of Communion

The memory of Saturday, June 26, 2004 will be with me forever as a special day. It was the day of my priestly ordination at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. I remember promising respect and obedience to Cardinal Keeler and his successors as Archbishop of Baltimore. I remember my hands being anointed with sacred...
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