Catholic Review, Author at Archdiocese of Baltimore

January 19, 2012

Political agenda doesn’t reflect faith

Anne R. Brusca’s letter (CR, Nov. 27) is the perfect example of a Catholic who is ready, willing and able to throw the church under the bus to promote her own political agenda. She states, in part: “The right to life doesn’t stop with birth.” Maybe, but by supporting the people and political policies that...

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January 19, 2012

St. Agnes opens new parish center

Father Carl F. Cummings and Susan Banks couldn’t contain their glee. The pastor of St. Agnes, Catonsville, and its elementary school principal watched as the eighth grade girls’ basketball team became the first group to use the new $4 million parish center.

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January 19, 2012

Polochick keeps ‘Messiah’ true to Baroque era

Edward Polochick has been conducting Handel’s “Messiah” in Baltimore since 1982, but he never grows tired of it.

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January 19, 2012

Catholic Charities USA warns against fraudulent e-mails on Internet

WASHINGTON – Catholic Charities USA officials have demanded that groups using the Catholic Charities name to solicit funds on the Internet discontinue using the trademark and urged potential donors to research the authenticity of an organization before making a contribution.

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January 19, 2012

U.S. bishops’ pro-life official, other pro-life leaders honored

NATICK, Mass. – Richard P. Doerflinger, associate director of the U.S. bishops’ Office of Pro-Life Activities in Washington, was named one of six winners of the inaugural Life Prizes awarded by the Gerard Health Foundation in Natick.

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January 19, 2012

Pope begins Advent by asking Christians to be signs of hope

VATICAN CITY – In their prayers and through their actions in Advent, Christians are called to be signs of hope for a world marked by holiness and justice, Pope Benedict XVI said.

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January 19, 2012

Charities, parishes struggle to keep pace in slow economy

Not so long ago, Oredolapo Roberts lived in a four-bedroom house, owned a successful business and drove her kids around in a new Chevy Tahoe.

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January 19, 2012

No instructions needed on how to exercise vote

I am a Catholic who proudly voted for Barack Obama and the slots referendum, which will allow the Preakness to stay at Pimlico. The slots referendum passed in Allegany County, in spite of a letter in my church bulletin suggesting parishioners vote against it. I don’t need instructions from the church or the pulpit on...

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January 19, 2012

Weigel column distorted by ideological bias

George Weigel’s recent review of the presidential election (CR, Nov. 20) was most disappointing. Without examining the reasons why 54 percent of Catholics voted for Senator Obama or these voters’ views on abortion, Mr. Weigel nevertheless describes these voters as “stupid” and “mindless.” Mr. Weigel’s view of the facts is distorted by his ideological biases.

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January 19, 2012

Vatican confirms tentative plans for papal visit to Holy Land in 2009

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has confirmed tentative plans for Pope Benedict XVI to visit the Holy Land in 2009.

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January 19, 2012

Vatican official says Galileo was a man of faith

ROME – Fourteen years after Pope John Paul II said the Catholic Church erred when it condemned the 17th-century astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Vatican secretary of state said the astronomer was “a man of faith” who recognized God as creator of the cosmos.

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January 19, 2012

FOCA’s effects seen as dire, but chance of it passing considered slim

WASHINGTON – About the only thing everyone with a stake in it is likely to agree on about the Freedom of Choice Act is that the legislation has languished in Congress for 20 years, only once rising – just barely – above the fate of hundreds of bills that are introduced each session and never...

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