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January 19, 2012

Mount VP to speak in Hickory

Monsignor Stuart Swetland, the vice president for Catholic identity and mission at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, will present a lecture on the “The Catholic Virtue of Patriotism: Being an Authentic Catholic and a True Citizen during Difficult Times,” at St. Ignatius in Hickory March 19 at 7:30 p.m.
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January 19, 2012

Rescue workers search rubble for survivors

Rescue workers searched the rubble of houses about 100 miles south of Peru’s capital city, Lima, in search of victims and survivors of a magnitude 7.9 earthquake that struck Aug. 15 at 6:40 p.m. Officials reported at least 337 people killed and more than 1,000 injured, but the figures were expected to rise.
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January 19, 2012

U.S. guides get to know Madrid before onslaught of young pilgrims

MADRID – Mike Dill took notes as he stood outside San Nicolas de los Servitas Church – the oldest church in Madrid and likely one of the places around the Spanish capital that the Albany, N.Y., resident will guide World Youth Day pilgrims.
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January 19, 2012

Bishops join call for US to support long-term development in Iraq

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has joined a broad group of religious, justice, and relief and development organizations in calling upon President Barack Obama to assist and protect vulnerable Iraqis and pursue efforts that lead to long-term development in war-torn Iraq.
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January 19, 2012

Cardinal grants surprise visit to Catholic Daughters

Seventy-five Catholic Daughters of the Americas from 17 courts in the State of Maryland got a special surprise Aug. 11 as they visited the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore.
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January 19, 2012

Growing influx of refugees poses challenge for giant Kenyan camp

DADAAB, Kenya – It took 32 days for Fatima Mohammed to make it from her drought-racked farm in Somalia to the relative safety of a sprawling refugee settlement in northeastern Kenya. There were days, she recalled, when her children were so thirsty that they could not walk and the men in her family would ferry...
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January 19, 2012

Colombian leaders urge Obama to reform U.S. policy toward Colombia

WASHINGTON – Colombian community leaders urged President Barack Obama to reform U.S. policy toward Colombia to end the destructive drug trade and more than 40 years of civil war.
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January 19, 2012

Bishop Pelotte moved to Houston hospital to be near his brother

WASHINGTON – Bishop Donald E. Pelotte of Gallup, N.M., has been moved to a Houston hospital closer to where his brother lives, after spending more than two weeks in a Phoenix hospital recovering from injuries he said he sustained in a fall at his home July 22. In an Aug. 9 posting on the diocesan...
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January 19, 2012

As number of seniors rise, so do careers in aging

When talking about the future of nursing and the number of aging patients, “silver tsunami” is the term Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing’s magazine uses in a spring 2011 article.
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January 19, 2012

Organisms’ common ancestry aids medical research, says biologist

ROME – Charles Darwin’s theory that all living organisms have descended from one common biological species is a scientific fact that has tremendously aided medical research, said an evolutionary biologist attending a Vatican-sponsored conference.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop O’Brien considered popular as a seminarian

As a seminarian in the 1960s, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien was considered serious, yet jocular, and fellow classmates wouldn’t have necessarily picked him out as the cleric in their class to become one of the most respected U.S. Catholic leaders.
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January 19, 2012

WYD pilgrims’ task: Help pope revive faith in Spain

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will visit Spain in late August, celebrating the youthfulness and vigor of Catholic faith in a country where the Catholic majority often seems to have little or no impact on modern public life.
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