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January 19, 2012

Catholics express concern over HPV vaccine

OTTAWA – Catholic and nongovernmental organizations have expressed concern over schools in several Canadian provinces offering a new vaccination program against a sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer.
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January 19, 2012

From the ashes: Faith lifts Dundalk man from troubled past

ROSEDALE – For much of the 1990s and into the 2000s, Michael Reuling was a criminal.
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January 19, 2012

Jesuit priest says his life is a journey toward the ‘God of peace’

ATLANTA – As a young Jesuit, Father John Dear chose to add his own vow of nonviolence to his order’s required vows of obedience, poverty and chastity.
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January 19, 2012

Faith-based investors say proposed rule could gut rights

WASHINGTON – In the 10 years since John Wilson joined Christian Brothers Investment Services, the number of shareholder resolutions filed by the socially responsible investment firm has decreased and the number of resolutions withdrawn after being introduced has increased.
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January 19, 2012

Artist’s work aims to make Stations of the Cross ‘more immediate’

WASHINGTON – Pennsylvania artist Virginia Maksymowicz said she created her sculpted reliefs of the Stations of the Cross using real people as models because she wanted each Station to seem “more immediate” to viewers than be some abstract imagery they could easily dismiss.
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January 19, 2012

Political agenda doesn’t reflect faith

Anne R. Brusca’s letter (CR, Nov. 27) is the perfect example of a Catholic who is ready, willing and able to throw the church under the bus to promote her own political agenda. She states, in part: “The right to life doesn’t stop with birth.” Maybe, but by supporting the people and political policies that...
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January 19, 2012

French Cardinal Lustiger dies

VATICAN CITY – Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the Jewish-born former archbishop of Paris who defended the right of believers to have a say in public debates, died at the age of 80.
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January 19, 2012

The Pro-Abortion Lobby … Again?

When the story of the appalling incident involving a young woman’s injuries at an abortion clinic in Elkton, in Cecil County, first surfaced last fall, voices on both sides of the abortion issue raised deep concern. Many were surprised to learn that the Free State’s permissive abortion laws carried no power to prevent the kind...
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January 19, 2012

Church provides critical services to Iraqi refugees in Syria

DAMASCUS, Syria – Sawsan Hussin was worried about her son Mustafa. The 10-year-old had brought the horror of Iraq with him when the family fled to Syria. He had nightmares and would cower at the slightest noise, his hands over his ears. Mrs. Hussin knew he needed help, but as the refugee family’s savings ran...
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January 19, 2012

St. Paul-Minneapolis Catholics responds to bridge collapse

WASHINGTON – Upon hearing of the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, priests from the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis traveled to the scene, as well as to nearby hospitals and medical centers, to see how they could help victims of the tragedy and their families. Although Dennis McGrath, archdiocesan...
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January 19, 2012

Archdiocese celebrates St. John Neumann’s 200th birthday

In the same Baltimore church where St. John Neumann once served as pastor and was consecrated the fourth bishop of Philadelphia, hundreds of Catholics gathered March 27 at the Shrine of St. Alphonsus to celebrate the saint’s 200th birthday.
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January 19, 2012

Remembering Baltimore’s black Catholic history

The 1843 death of Sulpician Father James Joubert, co-founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, was painfully felt in the black community. Archbishop Samuel Eccleston had no use for religious women of color and suggested that the Oblates return to the world and find employment in the better households of Maryland. The women opted to...
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