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January 19, 2012

Shortage goes beyond priests

A shortage of religious and clergy means that lay ecclesial ministers assume more duties in parishes, running religious education programs, designing youth programs and serving as pastoral associates.
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January 19, 2012

St. Frances graduate is queen of the court

When Sade Thomas entered St. Frances Academy, she expected to take the court for the Baltimore school and become a star.
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January 19, 2012

CCHD collection to help the poor

As Americans gather around dining room tables this November to celebrate the feast of Thanksgiving, more than 37 million people across the United States will be living in poverty.
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January 19, 2012

Mother Teresa sainthood cause awaits another miracle, postulator says

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Father Brian Kolodiejchuk of the Missionaries of Charity, postulator for the sainthood cause of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, told a gathering at the Knights of Columbus Museum in New Haven June 1 that her cause is “still waiting for one more miracle” for her to be declared a saint.
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January 19, 2012

Giving thanks one of four prayer forms

Thanksgiving might be considered the perfect holiday in the calendar’s lineup. No shopping for gifts, no wrapping required, no cookie-baking necessary, and most folks are treated to an extra day off from work to round out a perfectly good four-day weekend.
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January 19, 2012

Surreal setting in Port-au-Prince, where sisters continue educating 2,000 girls in tents

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The school year has been extended into July for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny and the nearly 2,000 girls and young women they educate and feed in this capital city.
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January 19, 2012

Pope calls Beethoven work an expression of optimism

VATICAN CITY – After listening to a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony,” Pope Benedict XVI called the work a masterful expression of optimism in the face of suffering.
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January 19, 2012

Employment Non-Discrimination Act seen jeopardizing religious freedom

WASHINGTON – A letter from the chairmen of three committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has stated the bishops’ opposition to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act because of the bill’s potential to “jeopardize our religious freedom to live our faith and moral tenets in today’s society.”
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January 19, 2012

Mercy Medical Center receives record gift

Mary Catherine Bunting has made the largest gift in the history of Mercy Medical Center, and the board of trustees announced yesterday that they will name their new building after her.
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January 19, 2012

Vatican greets development of first synthetic cell with caution

VATICAN CITY – The successful development of a synthetic cell can have many practical applications, but the technology must be regulated, said the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.
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January 19, 2012

Baby Jesus returns

He once was lost but now is found. The plastic baby Jesus figure that vandals ripped from the outdoor manger of a Timonium Nativity scene last January has been recovered and returned to Gil and Loretta Hoffman.
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January 19, 2012

Modern martyr: Polish priest was man of ‘deep conviction, integrity’

WARSAW, Poland – When a Catholic priest who was murdered by communist agents is beatified in Warsaw June 6, it will confirm his place as one of the church’s most conspicuous modern martyrs.
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