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January 19, 2012

Service enlivens faith for St. John’s grad

After Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf of Mexico, 17-year-old Cory Grimes joined a mission group of area Catholics to restore two storm-damaged homes in New Orleans.
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January 19, 2012

Prayers, money needed for bombing victim

Emily Munn was surfing the website Facebook.com recently when she looked at the bottom right of the screen at the chat function. She saw a list of friends who were online at the time.
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January 19, 2012

Measure to prohibit same-sex marriage to go to California voters

SAN FRANCISCO – An initiative to ban same-sex marriage in California has qualified for the Nov. 4 ballot.
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January 19, 2012

Apostolic Signature upholds right of bishops to close any parish

WASHINGTON - Canon law – the legal rules that guide church operations and decision-making – allows a local bishop to close any parish as long as his decision is made with the best interests of the entire diocese in mind.
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January 19, 2012

High-flying IND grad has 10 years of straight As

Maria Kroat was a second-grader the last time she saw a “B” on her report card. For the next decade, the parishioner of Our Lady of Hope in Dundalk earned nothing but straight As – making her one of the top students at Our Lady of Hope-St. Luke School in Dundalk and the Institute of...
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January 19, 2012

At church’s universal center, there’s more news than sex abuse

VATICAN CITY – A small article in the Vatican’s missionary newsletter, Fides, recently announced the first diocesan-wide meeting of the Kaifeng Diocese in China’s Henan province.
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January 19, 2012

Catholic student association launches pilgrim news Web site for WYD

PERTH, Australia – The Australian Catholic Students Association has kicked off a Web site linking international pilgrims with Australian Catholics as they prepare for World Youth Day in July.
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January 19, 2012

Treatment 2.0: Catholic AIDS workers say they already have tight budget

VIENNA – Large reductions in funding for AIDS work around the world are putting at risk the lives of people who depend on faith-based organizations for care, treatment and support, warned Catholic activists and others participating in the XVIII International AIDS Conference.
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January 19, 2012

The Mass Part 5: The Consecration

Now that the bread and wine — the fruit of our lives — are at a dignified place on the altar, the assembly stands and begins a dialogue with the priest that’s difficult to translate:
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January 19, 2012

Weary of war in Afghanistan

Just as Sean Costello (CR, June 24) “Veteran displeased with Magliano” was displeased with Tony Magliano’s column, I am displeased with his letter. Contrary to what Costello states, the majority of American taxpayers are weary of our nine years in Afghanistan. Killing innocent civilians and getting ourselves killed and wounded have not as yet produced...
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January 19, 2012

The nobility of Cardinal Dulles

If the United States had a nobility, Avery Dulles would have been born into it. His great-grandfather, John W. Foster, and his great-uncle, Robert Lansing, both served as Secretary of State. So did his father, John Foster Dulles, who also negotiated the post-World War II peace treaty with Japan. Avery Dulles’s uncle, Allen Dulles, was...
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January 19, 2012

The New Missal Series, Part Three: Liturgy reveals God

The Liturgy of the Word is composed of readings from sacred Scripture, the Homily, the Creed and the Prayer of the Faithful. The readings are not merely stories of long-ago events. In the readings, God speaks. God’s speech is not like ours; for God to speak is to reveal who God is. God speaks the...
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