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January 19, 2012

Tired of the death and violence, city looking for answers

Cathy McClain puts up a tough exterior. As a parishioner of St. Veronica in the oft-troubled Baltimore City neighborhood of Cherry Hill, she is active in trying to reach out to the youth of the parish.
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January 19, 2012

Bishop Pelotte released from hospital

GALLUP, N.M. – Bishop Donald E. Pelotte of Gallup has been released from a Houston hospital that specializes in traumatic brain injuries and is continuing his recuperation in Florida, said a diocesan official.
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January 19, 2012

Pastor’s good works disrupted

I had to read “Staying the Just Course” (CR, Nov. 3), Archbishop Edwin O’Brien’s column on the removal of the pastor from Our Lady of the Fields Church in Millersville, a second time to understand why he was removed. Even the accompanying article, “Pastor of Millersville’s Our Lady of the Fields resigns after audit,” did...
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January 19, 2012

Immigration reform seen as key issue for both US political parties

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Although immigration is not always front and center in public political discussions, it is often “talked about in the back rooms” and is a key issue for both political parties, a speaker told a Colorado Springs conference.
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January 19, 2012

Body of first bishop of Mississippi exhumed in Baltimore

The first Bishop of Mississippi recently made his final trip from Baltimore to Natchez, Miss. – 155 years after he died in Maryland. Born in Baltimore Oct. 4, 1795 to refugees of St. Domingue (now Haiti), Bishop John J. Chanche, S.S., was ordained a priest in the city in 1819, became the president of St....
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January 19, 2012

Be there for each other

As I opened some mail last month, the following letter greeted me: “By the time you have read this I will have passed away. I have asked God to forgive me and hope that you will pray for my soul to go to heaven with Jesus.”
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January 19, 2012

Irish religious orders do not want to renegotiate 2002 abuse deal

DUBLIN, Ireland – The 18 Irish religious congregations implicated in the abuse of children in their care say they do not wish to renegotiate a controversial deal in which they received indemnity from being sued by victims in exchange for contributing to a victim's compensation fund.
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January 19, 2012

Activists demand inquiry

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Civil rights activists and church groups in Sri Lanka have demanded an independent and impartial inquiry with international participation into last year’s disappearance of a Catholic priest and his companion in troubled Jaffna.
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January 19, 2012

CCHD refutes new charges that funded groups violate Catholic teaching

WASHINGTON – Officials with the Catholic Campaign for Human Development refuted a report that 55 agencies funded by the U.S. bishops’ anti-poverty program in 2010-11 were in conflict with church teaching.
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January 19, 2012

In Internet age, church cannot avoid debate, Vatican spokesman says

VATICAN CITY – Recent Vatican communications controversies have shown that in the Internet age the church cannot avoid debate and in fact must be prepared to explain its teachings more convincingly through new media, the Vatican’s spokesman said.
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January 19, 2012

Priest’s new project aims to unite families over food

ARLINGTON, Va. – What began as a joke in the kitchen will become a published cookbook this fall and possibly a TV cooking series next fall, said Father Leo Patalinghug, the break-dancing, martial-arts guru who also happens to be a skilled cook. The media project, “Grace Before Meals,” aims to bring families together around the...
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January 19, 2012

Archdiocese approves policy on sale of vacant schools

The Archdiocese of Baltimore has developed a policy to provide the proper canonical oversight for the sale or lease of former or current Catholic school buildings so that usage does not hinder the growth of other Catholic schools.
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