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January 19, 2012

Doctrine with calmness and clarity

Last week’s Catholic Review related the return to the Church after many years of the best-selling novelist Anne Rice – make that Anne O’Brien Rice (no relation)! Married to an atheist in her late teens and now 66, she described most of her adult life in terms of “despair, guilt and search for meaning and...
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January 19, 2012

Knights of Peter Claver – 100 years of service

On Nov. 7, the world’s oldest and largest historically African American Catholic lay organization celebrated 100 years of service to God and his people. The Knights of Peter Claver was founded Nov. 7, 1909 in Mobile, Ala., by four Josephite priests and three lay men. During this time in U.S. history, people of African descent...
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January 19, 2012

Memorial Day may have begun with a small, touching moment

The actual origin of Memorial Day, once called Decoration Day, is unclear, except that at first it was most certainly a response to the terrible tragedy of the Civil War in which so many Americans on both sides died on and off the battlefields.
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January 19, 2012

Reports say Pope John Paul closer to being declared venerable

VATICAN CITY – The cardinal- and bishop-members of the Congregation for Saints' Causes voted unanimously Nov. 16 to recommend that Pope Benedict XVI formally recognize that Pope John Paul II heroically lived the Christian virtues, Italian newspapers reported.
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January 19, 2012

Music program soothes patients

Babies cry less when they hear the sound of the harp. That’s not a mothering tip but an observation of nurses in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, on days when harpist Cathy Maglaras wheels in her 12-pound Celtic instrument to strum tenderly in the company of incubated preemies.
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January 19, 2012

New Jersey Catholic leaders express hopes, concerns about Christie

METUCHEN, N.J. – Catholic leaders in New Jersey are cautiously optimistic that Gov.-elect Chris Christie will keep several campaign promises, including opposing same-sex marriage legislation and supporting school choice for needy children.
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January 19, 2012

Governor signs legislation regarding abuse reporting, death penalty commission

Gov. Martin J. O’Malley signed a number of bills into law May 13, including House Bill 1111/ Senate Bill 614 establishing a Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment and Senate Bill 238/ House Bill 75 requiring nonpublic schools to receive a report when one of their students is arrested for a serious offense. Both measures were...
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January 19, 2012

Sixteen years of quiet pro-life advocacy comes to fruition for Stupak

WASHINGTON – After 16 years in Congress struggling with his party and even sometimes with his church over his status as a pro-life, Catholic Democrat, Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan was able to put his convictions to powerful effect in the passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act.
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January 19, 2012

Edward Whitesell to be ordained a permanent deacon

Edward Whitesell calls it “the fulfillment of a dream.” At the same time Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien ordains three men to the transitional diaconate during a May 10 liturgy at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore, the archbishop will also ordain Mr. Whitesell a permanent...
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January 19, 2012

Virginia bishop urges mercy for convicted sniper set to be executed

ARLINGTON, Va. - As Virginia prepared to execute convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, Bishop Paul S. Loverde of Arlington called for mercy and urged that Muhammad's sentence be commuted to life in prison without possibility of parole.
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January 19, 2012

Need a break? Try taking a mental health day

Remember Ferris Bueller’s famous day off from high school and his overly-dramatic plan to stop and smell the roses?
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January 19, 2012

Pregnancy center bill heads to City Council floor

A bill that Catholic leaders say harasses pro-life pregnancy centers is heading to the floor of the Baltimore City Council after members of the Judiciary and Legislative Investigations Committee voted 3-1 in favor of the controversial measure Nov. 2.
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