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January 19, 2012

Speaker Pelosi does not advance church agenda

Rep. Nancy Pelosi hardly deserves mention as being an asset in advancing church agenda (CR, Jan 11). I find nothing commendable in her being helpful on “certain” issues. Her stand on abortion represents a scandal of monumental proportions considering the number of lives lost in our nation’s abortion clinics. That some bishops remain mute on...
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January 19, 2012

Prisoner releases, ongoing talks with Castro give Cuban cardinal hope

WASHINGTON – The release of the first 20 of 52 political prisoners the Cuban government has promised to set free is a hopeful sign for the country, said Havana Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino.
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January 19, 2012

Vandal attacks Timonium Nativity set

Standing next to toppled plastic figures of St. Joseph, the Blessed Virgin Mary and assorted sheep, Loretta Hoffman shook her head sadly and pointed to an empty manger flipped on its side by vandals. “That’s where the baby Jesus was,” she said, noting that her husband, Gil, had secured the figure with wires to prevent...
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January 19, 2012

Under a microscope over immigration law: Arizona’s sense of siege

DOUGLAS, Ariz. – In the weeks leading up to the scheduled enactment of Arizona’s much-debated immigration law July 29, everyday activities and conversations conveyed a sense of a state under siege, particularly in Douglas, a town of 20,000 people on the Mexican border.
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January 19, 2012

Ambassadors to Vatican have diverse backgrounds

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- At first glance, the ambassadors accredited to the Vatican seem to be a group of elegant, older men gracefully ending their diplomatic careers in a posting filled with pomp and circumstance. The suits with tails, the swords, the plumed hats, sashes and medals highlight the formality of public occasions and the...
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January 19, 2012

Rise in soldiers’ deaths hits close to home for Fort Campbell families

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – At the July 21 Eagle Remembrance Ceremony for nine fallen Fort Campbell soldiers, families of those who made the ultimate sacrifice paused in front of portraits of their loved ones to embrace and wipe away tears while members of the standing room only crowd did the same.
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January 19, 2012

2007 promises a world of busyness for Pope

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A new Vatican calendar features photos of Pope Benedict XVI relaxing, but the pope's own agenda for 2007 leaves little time for repose. The Vatican will be a busy place throughout the year, with hundreds of papal meetings, liturgies and other events already scheduled and several documents in the pipeline. The...
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January 19, 2012

Beach parishes help foreign students working summer jobs feel at home

OCEAN CITY – A home-cooked meal was just what Monika Burzynska needed after her first two weeks in the United States.
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January 19, 2012

Polish archbishop tells dissident nuns to leave convent

A Polish archbishop told a group of nuns to leave their convent after the Vatican expelled them from their order for refusing to accept a new mother superior. "There are no private religious orders in the Catholic Church where everyone can set their own rules," Archbishop Jozef Zycinski of Lublin told Poland's Catholic information agency,...
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January 19, 2012

Beyond Arizona law debate, common ground seen on immigration solutions

LOS ANGELES – The heated national debate over Arizona’s tough new immigration law has drawn much-needed attention to calls for immigration reform, but it also has obscured the fact that there is “actual common ground” among Americans on “key elements” of reform, according to Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles.
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January 19, 2012

Pope says Christians are urged to become immaculate in love like Mary

All Christians are called to become "holy and immaculate in love," just as Mary was, Pope Benedict XVI said. The pope celebrated the Dec. 8 feast of the Immaculate Conception by reciting the Angelus prayer at the Vatican and by making an afternoon visit to a Marian monument in the center of Rome. During his...
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January 19, 2012

St. Patrick’s prayer service marks six months since Haiti earthquake

NEW YORK – Hope still exists in Haiti six months after a huge earthquake killed a quarter-million people in the Caribbean nation, according to the secretary-general for the U.N. Association of Haiti.
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