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January 19, 2012

Vacation Bible camps offer a Catholic flavor

St. Michael the Archangel second -graders Persis Prenger and Nathan Rippel can’t wait for their Overlea’s parish’s upcoming vacation Bible camp.
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January 19, 2012

Pope says Vatican must be on Internet with word, sound, images

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican media must unite their efforts to provide packages of word, sound and images to proclaim the Gospel to modern Internet users, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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January 19, 2012

New Our Daily Bread building to be dedicated May 24

The new $15 million Our Daily Bread Employment Center and soup kitchen will not open to serve meals to Baltimore’s poor and homeless until June 4, but the halls of the three-story, 52,000-square-foot building are already filled with people. Contractors worked to ready the new site at 725 Fallsway for its May 24 dedication and...
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January 19, 2012

Who is teaching the faith?

In “Archbishop Chaput: No unity among U.S. bishops on sanctions for abortion support” (CatholicReview.org, April 12) Archbishop Charles J. Chaput suggested the USCCB’s failure to agree on denying communion to pro-choice believers is that some bishops “fear” they “might somehow disenfranchise the Catholic community from political life.” This raises a question about their responsibility to...
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January 19, 2012

Ronnie’s Good Deed

The homicide rate in Baltimore City is down from a year ago. That’s good news, indeed for people who live and work in our city. But, try convincing Baltimore resident Patricia Grant to find joy in this statistic. Ms. Grant is the mother of 14-year-old Ronald “Ronnie” Jackson, who was shot and killed Sunday, December...
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January 19, 2012

Brief history of the Catholic Church in China

BEIJING (CNS) -- Catholic scholars and sociologists sometimes refer to the current religious revival in China as the country's fifth evangelization. They consider the first evangelization when an Assyrian monk, Alopen, brought Christianity across the Silk Road to what is now Xi'an, China, in the seventh century. The period was commemorated with the erection of...
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January 19, 2012

Catholic leaders: Guatemalan first lady’s divorce bad for society

GUATEMALA CITY – In what Catholic leaders deemed a bad example for society, Guatemala’s first couple divorced to allow now-former first lady Sandra Torres to run for president.
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January 19, 2012

Church agencies try to help as unemployed Americans search for work

WASHINGTON – More Americans are losing jobs, and Catholic agencies are trying their best to tide them over until they find new work.
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January 19, 2012

NDP student wins art contest

Mary Regina Bolgiano, a student at Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson, was the grand-prize winner of Safeway’s Lucerne® Art of Diary™ “Cows & History” art contest. A junior from Lutherville, Mary was chosen from a pool of 30 national finalists from 11 states who were vying for the $22,000 grand prize which includes a...
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January 19, 2012

Big shoes to fill

It came as a shock to learn that Father John Dietzen died (CR, March 31). Evidently because an old picture was used in his column, most of us readers had no idea of his advancing age. We will miss him very much.
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January 19, 2012

Women enter Egyptian politics with help from church-sponsored program

CAIRO, Egypt – Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., claimed she put 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling to women’s electoral participation during the U.S. presidential primaries. In Egypt, the glass ceiling is much lower, yet a church-sponsored program is helping a handful of courageous women chip away at the restrictions of a political culture that...
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January 19, 2012

St. Anthony grad recounts Catholic school upbringing

On Ann Hennessy’s first day of school at St. Anthony of Padua in Baltimore during the Great Depression, the young girl knew she had better be good or her parents would suffer otherworldly consequences. The pastor had given a rabble-rousing homily a few weeks earlier warning that the flames of hell awaited parents who did...
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