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January 19, 2012

Vocations, vocations, vocations!

In his commentary on the Scriptures for the fifth Sunday of Easter, Father Daniel Harrington, S.J., offers the following: “Philip’s request to Jesus (‘Show us the Father and that will be enough for us’) is the occasion for Jesus to express the central and most profound insight in all of John’s Gospel: ‘Whoever has seen...
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January 19, 2012

Cardinal Kasper says provision for Anglicans is not anti-ecumenical

VATICAN CITY – The establishment of special structures for Anglicans who want to enter into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church absolutely is not a signal of the end of ecumenical dialogue with the Anglican Communion, said the Vatican’s chief ecumenist.
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January 19, 2012

Myanmar cyclone victims try to survive amid devastating losses

LEIEINTAN, Myanmar – Pascal Than Hlaing is just one of many who are grieving in Leieintan, a village where only one house is left standing and the Baptist and Catholic churches had their roofs torn open.
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January 19, 2012

Lord, teach us to pray …

Prayer has always marked Christian life. The evolution of Christian prayer spans centuries and bears the character of countless faithful whose hearts and voices call to the one who is at once, the source of their yearning and the goal that they seek.
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January 19, 2012

Vietnam POW bracelet worn 40 years after war

Most people don’t recognize the plain, nickel-plated bracelet that circles the right wrist of Sister Stacy Gunnip, S.S.N.D. They think it’s an ID bracelet.
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January 19, 2012

Crabs and Crowns

Bagels and Tastycakes. Likely the one and only time these words will ever appear together in a column of mine, these staples of households in New York and Philadelphia were on the line recently as Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Cardinal Justin Rigali placed a friendly wager on who would win the 2009 World Series.
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January 19, 2012

Doctor: Drinking water important for good health

Fitness gurus have said it so many times and with such certainty that it almost seems like a given: drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day for good health.
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January 19, 2012

Champion of justice

During this Black Catholic History Month, it is fitting to acknowledge a woman marked by faith and who is not afraid to allow God to use her in the ministry of social justice within the judicial arena.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop asks governor to veto bills

Concerned that two bills passed by the Maryland General Assembly would “significantly erode” the definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien is urging Gov. Martin J. O’Malley to veto Senate Bills 566 and 597.
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January 19, 2012

Vatican says Anglican document delay not due to married priests issue

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has denied that the delay in publishing the apostolic constitution on Anglicans seeking admission to the Catholic Church has been caused by an internal Vatican debate over admitting married priests.
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January 19, 2012

Poll shows pope’s visit influenced attitudes toward church, faith

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Pope Benedict XVI’s U.S. visit impacted public attitudes toward the pope, the church and people’s willingness to live their faith more fully, according to a poll commissioned by the Knights of Columbus.
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January 19, 2012

Iraq war widow is Baltimore native

When Donna Gilmore looked at her newborn grandson, Cornell Winston Gilmore III, this past September, she thought about her husband.
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