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January 19, 2012

City parish takes aim at urban violence, one gun at a time

What started out as a one-time mission to rid Baltimore’s streets of firepower has become an enduring crusade for city parish St. Gregory the Great. Armed with grant money from a Baltimore attorney, the church has shelled out cash to citizens who’ve turned in guns, totaling more than 50 weapons in the past nine months....
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January 19, 2012

Mestizaje and multicultural religious education

Two of my favorite examples that depict God as an artisan forming his people are found in the pages of the Old Testament and in the writings of an early church father. In Chapter 18 of the Book of Jeremiah God identifies himself as the potter and the people of Israel as the clay in...
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January 19, 2012

Church’s investment losses mirror rest of nation, financier says

WASHINGTON – The losses incurred by Catholic institutions in the stock market since last autumn are roughly the same as the hits taken by other investors, according to a financier who estimates he gives investment advice to more U.S. dioceses than any other firm.
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January 19, 2012

St. Paddy’s Day bumped by Holy Week

St. Patrick got bumped by St. Joseph, but both saints find their feast days shifted this year due to a quirk of the calendar. Their feast days fall during Holy Week and must be moved because nothing takes precedence over Holy Week, said Monsignor Robert J. Jaskot, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
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January 19, 2012

Papal foundation plans to expand assistance to AIDS patients

VATICAN CITY – A papal foundation dedicated to AIDS patients may expand its services to include a global program of distributing anti-AIDS drugs, a Vatican official said.
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January 19, 2012

Physicians take legal, educational steps to defend conscience rights

WASHINGTON – To combat what they see as threats to the conscience rights of health care professionals who oppose abortion, the Catholic Medical Association and other organizations are taking both legal and educational steps.
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January 19, 2012

College presidents concerned about reduced state funding

ANNAPOLIS – Gov. Martin J. O’Malley’s budget doesn’t do enough to help the state’s Catholic and other independent colleges, according to the leaders of Maryland’s three Catholic colleges.
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January 19, 2012

Vatican official rejects criticism in wake of Irish judicial report

VATICAN CITY – A leading church official rejected harsh criticism of the Vatican in the wake of an Irish judicial report on the handling of priestly sex abuse cases.
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January 19, 2012

Cardinal Egan emphasized schools, vocations as archbishop of New York

WASHINGTON – Cardinal Edward M. Egan, who will step down as New York archbishop with the installation of Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, made Catholic schools and vocations a focus of his nine-year tenure in New York.
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January 19, 2012

Building for peace is focus of Social Ministry Convocation

“Building for peace in a violent world” is the theme of the 29th annual Social Ministry Convocation March 1 at The Seton Keough High School, 1201 Caton Ave., in Baltimore. Registration for the event, which will be held from 8:15 a.m. to 3 p.m., is $10. Lunch is provided for those who pre-register.
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January 19, 2012

What would Jesus do? Latin Americans look at extractive industries

LIMA, Peru – When Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo first considered the high lead levels in the blood of children living in the Peruvian highland city of La Oroya, he asked himself, “What would Jesus do?”
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January 19, 2012

Keep FOCA in headlines

In response to “FOCA is a threat to Catholic health care,” by Louis C. Breschi, M.D. (CR, Feb. 12), I will join with you in fighting to protect human life and our religious freedom to serve human life and health with integrity. I also say that I tried to do this by not voting for...
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