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January 19, 2012

Actor Liam Neeson records Way of the Cross for CD project

DENVER – Actor Liam Neeson, whose latest film “Taken” was the top box-office draw in the United States the first weekend of its release Jan. 30-Feb. 1, has narrated a version of the Way of the Cross written by St. Alphonsus Liguori.
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January 19, 2012

John Jay investigator criticizes bad reporting about abuse report

NEW YORK – Many news stories about the recently released report on “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010” tried – and failed – to capture its complex findings in a sound bite, according to the principal investigator for the study.
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January 19, 2012

Pastor of three city parishes resigns

In a private meeting Nov. 8 at the Catholic Center in downtown Baltimore with Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien and Bishop Denis J. Madden, urban vicar, Father Raymond D. Martin was asked to resign his position as pastor of the Catholic Community of South Baltimore Nov. 8 because of violations of archdiocesan pol¬icy and canon law.
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January 19, 2012

Poll shows disapproval of Obama’s Mexico City policy reversal

WASHINGTON – Although a majority of Americans support many of President Barack Obama’s early actions in office, only about a third back his decision to allow funding for overseas family planning groups that provide abortions, according to a new poll by USA Today/Gallup.
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January 19, 2012

Seminarians want to be ‘part of the solution’ in addressing abuse issue

WASHINGTON – Most of them weren’t born yet when the events occurred that came to define the U.S. crisis of sexual abuse by priests. But for men who entered the seminary in the past decade, a point of commonality seems to be that they want to prove that priests are good people.
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January 19, 2012

Confession scares some

Waverly resident Diane Davis has a confession to make. She hasn’t been in nearly 30 years.
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January 19, 2012

Vatican orders study of women religious institutes in United States

WASHINGTON – The Vatican has initiated an apostolic visitation of institutes for women religious in the United States to find out why the numbers of their members have decreased during the past 40 years and to look at the quality of life in the communities.
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January 19, 2012

Vatican, biotech firm host congress to promote adult stem-cell therapy

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican will host an international congress to promote the use of adult stem cells as a safe, effective and ethical means to fight degenerative diseases.
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January 19, 2012

Cards community needs to believe

Calvert Hall College High School’s head football coach, Donald Davis, has his work cut out for him as he continues to challenge and change the mindset of his players and those associated with the Towson football program. Bottom line: They need to believe that they can win football games.
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January 19, 2012

Parishes explore best options at Mass for families with children

TRENTON, N.J. – It is Sunday morning and Sally and Tom are preparing to take their three children – 6-year-old Abby, 3-year-old Matthew and 1-year-old Joey – to Mass.
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January 19, 2012

Religion may play crucial role in 2012 campaign, as it has in past

WASHINGTON – As seven Republican candidates for president prepared for a June 13 debate in New Hampshire and others waited in the wings, there were signs that religion will play as big a role in the 2012 election as it has in other recent campaigns.
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January 19, 2012

Blessed Damien’s sainthood cause takes step forward

HONOLULU – The sainthood cause of Blessed Damien de Veuster took a significant step forward when the medical commission of the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes ruled that the healing of a Hawaiian woman of lung cancer more than 10 years ago was “unexplainable according to available medical knowledge.”
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