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January 19, 2012

Study: Overseas aid needed to keep poor from falling further behind

WASHINGTON – Officials from a variety of nongovernmental organizations have urged the United States to continue overseas development assistance despite the current global financial crisis.
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January 19, 2012

Returning teacher finds new challenges

I recently returned to teaching high school in the Archdiocese of Baltimore after an absence of more than 30 years. The things that I have learned (and in some cases relearned) are as numerous as the challenges a teacher faces today.
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January 19, 2012

Making use of your ‘last time’

It happened several years ago, but the thought continues to bother me. John had made the comment at one of our group get-togethers. “Don’t mention those words ‘last time’ to me,” he said.
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January 19, 2012

PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS

Two evenings of fun, fellowship and blanket-making in the parish center of St. Mark, Catonsville, resulted in sending more than 130 fleece blankets to Soldier’s Angels (www.soldiersangels.org), an organization distributing blankets before Christmas to 180,000 deployed soldiers.
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January 19, 2012

Basilica gift shop thrives during holiday season

Black Friday isn’t just a lucrative day for shopping malls. Christmas-minded consumers make the gift shop of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary a must-stop the day after Thanksgiving in Baltimore.
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January 19, 2012

Christ’s birth: Love made visible

I had a rather rotund friend in college who loved life, loved God and definitely loved food. He would often say as we ate in our cafeteria, “Food is God’s love made edible.” In fact, he even wrote his senior thesis on the relationship between food and theology (Banquet Feast of the Lamb, for example)....
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January 19, 2012

Priests find extra sense of joy in Christmas

The weeks leading up to Christmas are among the busiest of the year for parish priests. There are Masses to celebrate, reconciliation services to hold, missions to give, decorations to coordinate, homilies to prepare and countless other duties to attend.
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January 19, 2012

South Baltimore has ingredients for a faith-filled Christmas

Mary Simon (left) and Jean Marie Monti prepare oatmeal Christmas cookies at Holy Cross, Federal Hill, that are sold to benefit the parish. Volunteers started baking in September to fill December orders. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)
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January 19, 2012

Remembering Baltimore’s black Catholic history

The 1843 death of Sulpician Father James Joubert, co-founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, was painfully felt in the black community. Archbishop Samuel Eccleston had no use for religious women of color and suggested that the Oblates return to the world and find employment in the better households of Maryland. The women opted to...
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January 19, 2012

Texas pilgrimage promotes church efforts to defend life at all stages

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – With nothing more to protect them from the elements than the “umbrella of life,” more than 800 Catholics gathered in Huntsville to take part in the first “Pilgrimage of Life” Nov. 24.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop calls summit to plan successful future of Catholic schools

In the wake of declining enrollment and increasing financial challenges, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien is convening a January education summit of priests to help strengthen Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
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January 19, 2012

Hydes teens take faith-filled jump in Ocean City

OCEAN CITY – The hearts of members of the St. John the Evangelist, Hydes, youth group were in the right place Nov. 22, as they entered the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean for a charity plunge.
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