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January 19, 2012

Catholic organization helps ex-inmates adjust to life on the outside

WILMINGTON, Del. – When Keith Swayne was about to be released from the Delaware Correctional Center near Smyrna three years ago, he faced a bleak future.
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January 19, 2012

Catholic Health invests $10 million in Calvert Foundation

Catholic Health Initiatives, the parent company of St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, invested $10 million in Calvert Social Investment Foundation (Calvert Foundation) Community Investment Notes in March.
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January 19, 2012

Cuban-American confirmed as ninth US ambassador to the Vatican

WASHINGTON – Catholic theologian Miguel Diaz was confirmed by the U.S. Senate Aug. 4 as the ninth U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
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January 19, 2012

Papal visit on CUA campus excites Catholic students active in faith

WASHINGTON – Late-night talks with friends about life and faith are common in the dorm rooms of The Catholic University of America. Talking about the Catholic Church in class is pretty normal, too.
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January 19, 2012

House panel accepts, then rejects abortion ban in health reform bill

WASHINGTON – Despite the support of a U.S. cardinal and its own initial approval, the House Energy and Commerce Committee July 30 rejected an amendment to a House health care reform bill that would have prohibited any mandated abortion coverage, except in cases of rape, incest or life-threatening danger to the mother.
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January 19, 2012

Pope steps up appeals for end to bloodbath in Iraq

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI stepped up appeals for an end to the bloodbath and hatred tearing apart Iraq.
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January 19, 2012

Interfaith discussion on health reform gives timeliness top priority

WASHINGTON - The Rev. Drew Nettinga opened a prayer breakfast July 28 at the U.S. Capitol with a reminder to Congress that he and other people of faith will be vigilant and persistent on the issue of health care reform.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop O’Brien tours Washington County

HAGERSTOWN – Standing beneath a large painting of the crucifixion at St. Ann in Hagerstown, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien challenged Washington County parishioners to “embrace” the crosses that come into their lives.
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January 19, 2012

Israel stops distributing booklet claiming Vatican-Hezbollah ties

JERUSALEM (CNS) - Booklets claiming that the Vatican helped organize tours of the Auschwitz concentration camp for Hezbollah members to teach them how to wipe out Jews were distributed to Israeli soldiers for several months before Israeli military officials suspended the distribution.
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January 19, 2012

“Global citizens” and U.S. politics

A Canadian friend recently alerted me to an international petition being organized by Avaaz.org, a “community of global citizens who take action on the major issues facing the world today.” (According to the organization’s polyglots, “‘avaaz’...means ‘voice’ or ‘song’ in...Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, Nepalese, Dari, Turkish, and Bosnian.”) The petition asks “global citizens” around the world...
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January 19, 2012

Correct decision was made on school closing

For many years Immaculate Conception parish was the center of my life. In the fall of 1952, Mrs. Tinder, an excellent teacher and mother of Monsignor Tinder, became the first layperson on the grammar school faculty. My two sisters are graduates of Towson Catholic High School.
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January 19, 2012

After four centuries, Galileo to return to the Vatican

VATICAN CITY – Four centuries after he was called by church officials to retract teachings deemed suspect of heresy, the 17th-century Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei will be returning to Vatican City.
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