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January 19, 2012

‘Green index’ has unseen ramifications

After reading about the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility’s “green” index” (CR, Feb. 26), I was struck by the fact that I was reading this article on paper that is distributed by carbon-emitting U.S. Postal Service vehicles.
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January 19, 2012

Free Stroke Seminar

In honor of National Stroke Awareness month, St. Agnes, Baltimore, will host a free seminar, “new Rehabilitation Advances in the Treatment of Stroke,” May 15.
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January 19, 2012

CHURCH CHATTER: Five-year-old speech still packs a punch

The Respect Life ministry at St. John in Westminster is leading a campaign to open a crisis pregnancy center in Carroll County, and its pastor is doing his part to help the effort.
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January 19, 2012

Organization to distribute $1 million in grants to retired religious

WASHINGTON – Support Our Aging Religious, a national organization working to help U.S. religious congregations finance the retirement of their elderly and infirm members, will distribute $1 million in grants to 58 religious congregations this year.
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January 19, 2012

MySpace page helps minister stay online with youth

When St. William of York, Baltimore, youth minister, Wayne Hipley, started his youth ministry career five years ago, he was told to “go where the kids are “– meaning find out what activities young people are interested in, what music they are listening to and what is “cool” and incorporate it into the youth group...
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January 19, 2012

Gov. O’Malley will sponsor same-sex marriage legislation

ANNAPOLIS – Gov. Martin J. O’Malley said he will take a leadership role in passing same-sex marriage legislation in Maryland next year, promising in a July 22 press conference that he will sponsor legislation that would legalize gay marriage while also protecting the free exercise of religion.
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January 19, 2012

Death penalty repeal advocates hopeful

Gov. Martin J. O’Malley’s effort to repeal Maryland’s death penalty appears to be gaining momentum.
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January 19, 2012

Family, friends say farewell to New Jersey shooting victim

FLEMINGTON, N.J. – Hundreds of friends, classmates and family members filled St. Magdalen de Pazzi Church in Flemington for the April 24 funeral Mass for Michael Steven Pohle Jr., one of 32 victims of a student gunman who went on a shooting rampage April 16 at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. The Mass was celebrated...
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January 19, 2012

Truth, stranger than fiction

It’s time for a few true stories. A few weeks ago in the Mass readings, there was the story of Sodom and Gomorrah being destroyed, and Lot’s wife being turned into a pillar of salt. The reading from the book of Genesis read: “The man said to Lot: ‘Take your wife and flee!’ ” A...
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop encourages parents of priests and seminarians

Brian and Barbara Bolger weren’t shocked when their son, Jesse, told them he wanted to become a priest. Parish priests had always been close friends of the family, they said, and Mr. Bolger’s uncle was also a clergyman who sometimes played basketball with the Bolgers.
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January 19, 2012

Limbo reflects ‘restrictive view of salvation’

VATICAN CITY – After several years of study, the Vatican’s International Theological Commission said there are good reasons to hope that babies who die without being baptized go to heaven. In a document published April 20, the commission said the traditional concept of limbo – as a place where unbaptized infants spend eternity but without...
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January 19, 2012

New law says California schools must highlight gays’ contributions

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California has become the first state in the nation to require its public school social studies texts to specifically include the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.
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