Catholic Review, Author at Archdiocese of Baltimore

January 19, 2012

Golden Rule guides soup kitchen in silver anniversary

It was a half-hour before St. John’s soup kitchen opened its doors in Westminster, but Larry Finchan was already in line.

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January 19, 2012

Colts legend spotlights donation

St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore and the Saint Agnes Foundation recently came together with Pro Football Hall of Famer and legendary Baltimore Colts running back Lenny Moore and his family to recognize a $50,000 donation that was made to St. Agnes’ capital campaign in their honor.

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January 19, 2012

Catholic universities put potential speakers through vetting process

WASHINGTON – Commencement season has arrived and the controversy over President Barack Obama’s scheduled address at the University of Notre Dame’s May 17 graduation ceremony has drawn a spotlight onto the end-of-the-year festivities at Catholic colleges nationwide.

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January 19, 2012

Some Catholic college students say they’d welcome Obama at graduation

WASHINGTON – Though officials at the University of Notre Dame are taking a lot of heat for inviting President Barack Obama to be this year’s commencement speaker, most Catholic college students interviewed by Catholic News Service said they would be thrilled if he spoke at their graduation.

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January 19, 2012

President Bush earned his praise

In comparing the second President Bush’s position on life to President Obama’s, Jeannette Mollenkopf (CR, May 14) says she doesn’t “get it.” Perhaps I can help. Mollenkopf makes the point that Catholics criticize Obama for supporting abortion, but give Bush a pass for his support of capital punishment.

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January 19, 2012

On plane to Rome, pope says he found desire for peace in Holy Land

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO ROME – Flying back to Rome after a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Pope Benedict XVI offered an instant analysis of his eight-day trip.

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January 19, 2012

In Holy Land, pilgrim pope delivers religious, political challenges

JERUSALEM – Pope Benedict XVI’s eight-day visit to the Holy Land was a biblical pilgrimage, an interfaith mission and a political balancing act all rolled into one.

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January 19, 2012

Archbishop’s book details lifelong journey, struggle with sexuality

ST. FRANCIS, Wis. – In his new book, “A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church: Memoirs of a Catholic Archbishop,” retired Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee details aspects of his life from birth to retirement.

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January 19, 2012

Escalating piracy has roots in fishing encroachment, priest says

NEW ORLEANS – The rampant piracy in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia’s coast has its roots in the encroachment into fishing zones by large fishing vessels from other countries, but that does not excuse the escalating violence launched by pirates against oceangoing vessels, said a priest who has a ministry to seafarers.

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January 19, 2012

Papal nuncio’s 2003 death in Burundi attributed to random violence

DUBLIN, Ireland – The identity of the killers of Archbishop Michael Courtney, the Vatican diplomat shot dead in Burundi in 2003, probably never will be known, the prelate’s brother said.

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January 19, 2012

Pope’s pediatric hospital: Making a big impact helping tiny patients

VATICAN CITY – Of the thousands of hospitals the Catholic Church owns or operates, one has a very special patron. Known as “the pope’s hospital,” the Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital belongs to the Vatican.

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January 19, 2012

Pope urges peace, two-state solution as he leaves Holy Land

JERUSALEM – Amid billowing Israeli and Vatican flags, Pope Benedict XVI reaffirmed his friendship with both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples, acknowledging the Palestinians’ right to an independent state as well as Israel’s right to exist in “peace and security.”

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