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January 19, 2012

Parishes benefit from Haiti partnerships

Instead of asking for presents for her seventh birthday, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Edgewater, parishioner Sophie Smith asked her friends to help sponsor a child in Haiti. Sophie, her brother Sam Smith and other young people have taken the lead in raising money for Our Lady of Perpetual Help’s new sister parish, St. Elizabeth...
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January 19, 2012

Retreats offer break from everyday hustle

There are only so many hours in a business professional’s day and by the end of the week it’s nice to take some time away from the hassles of the workplace. At the Malvern Retreat House in Pennsylvania, a new retreat specifically developed to help individuals integrate spirituality with business will take place June 1-...
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January 19, 2012

We Must Never Forget

Memorial Day is a legal holiday, observed annually on the last Monday in May to honor our nation’s armed forces who served gallantly in too many campaigns. The holiday, originally called Decoration Day, is traditionally marked by parades, speeches, ceremonies and the decoration of graves with flowers and flags, hence the original name. Memorial Day...
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January 19, 2012

Parishioners learn how expensive it is to run their church

When Ss. Philip & James, Homewood, parishioner Mary Fetsch read a recent church bulletin, she was shocked to see a copy of her parish’s Baltimore Gas & Electric bill inside. The document revealed the April utility charges for the church to be more than $4,600, with an additional $1,373.41 for the rectory. The bill was...
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January 19, 2012

Bishop Walsh adopts new administrative model

CUMBERLAND – Bishop Walsh School in Cumberland has recently adopted a president-principal administrative model, joining a growing list of Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore that have done the same. Of the 21 high schools in the archdiocese, 12 already employ a president-principal model. The John Carroll School in Bel Air announced this...
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January 19, 2012

Police file charges against officials at church retreat center

MURINGOOR, India – Police have filed criminal charges against 10 top officials of a popular Catholic retreat center in southern India. The accused include two Vincentian priests and a nun. The charges against the Divine Retreat Center officials were filed April 30 at the direction of Kerala state’s High Court, which ordered a probe of...
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January 19, 2012

Church must dispel prejudice about its stance on AIDS

LONDON –The Catholic Church must do more to dispel “mistaken prejudices” about its attitudes to people with HIV/AIDS, said a Scottish archbishop. “It needs to be said again and again that the Catholic Church is committed to those works of mercy in the field of HIV/AIDS,” said Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow, Scotland. The archbishop...
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January 19, 2012

Estonian Catholics shaken after repeated riots

WARSAW, Poland – Catholics in Estonia remain “shaken and afraid” by repeated riots in the capital, Tallinn, after a government decision to dismantle a Soviet war memorial sparked angry reactions from ethnic Russians. “People aren’t accustomed to such violence here,” said Father Alfonso Di Giovanni, the Italian rector of Tallinn’s Sts. Peter and Paul Parish.
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January 19, 2012

Hope and healing after abortion

‘I didn’t think the church cared or God cared about me.’ – Alison ‘I know my abortion has caused much self-hatred that was expressed in my eating disorder and many other problems.’ – Anonymous For many women and men, involvement with abortion has left a painful and lasting wound. Society tells them, “Get over it....
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January 19, 2012

Brief history of the Catholic Church in China

BEIJING (CNS) -- Catholic scholars and sociologists sometimes refer to the current religious revival in China as the country's fifth evangelization. They consider the first evangelization when an Assyrian monk, Alopen, brought Christianity across the Silk Road to what is now Xi'an, China, in the seventh century. The period was commemorated with the erection of...
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January 19, 2012

For religious who study abroad, returning can be a challenge

BEIJING (CNS) -- Studying abroad can help Chinese priests and nuns understand the universal church, but it also can cause a culture shock when they return to their country. Sister Pauline Yu Chunjing was 34 years old and still had one year of study left at New York's Fordham University when the Sisters of Our...
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January 19, 2012

Layman wields enormous influence within church

BEIJING (CNS) -- He's known as "the black pope of China" -- a play on the "black pope" title given to the powerful head of the Jesuits -- and whether or not people like his methods, they all agree that he is one of the most powerful laymen in China's Catholic Church. Anthony Liu Bainian,...
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