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January 19, 2012

Revised Roman Missal binds Catholics across a 2,000-year history

WASHINGTON – When the third edition of the English-language version of the Roman Missal is implemented at Advent, it will mark the continuing evolution of the eucharistic liturgy that began in the earliest days of the church.
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January 19, 2012

Pope urges world leaders to stabilize markets without excluding poor

VATICAN CITY – In a letter to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Pope Benedict XVI urged leaders from the world’s wealthiest nations to stabilize financial markets without excluding families and the poor.
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January 19, 2012

Women chip Vatican’s glass ceiling

VATICAN CITY – If he looked around the chapel during his Lenten retreat this year, Pope Benedict XVI would have seen an all-male assembly. The absence of women was not deliberate. The invitation to attend the pope’s spiritual exercises goes out to the top two or three officials of Vatican agencies, and almost all of...
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January 19, 2012

Days in a daze

Last week, the East Coast was shaken by an earthquake, followed by Hurricane Irene barreling her way up the Eastern Seaboard. Some folks on social networks wondered if plagues of locusts were coming next.
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January 19, 2012

Pro-life official criticizes court ruling on Plan B for 17-year-olds

WASHINGTON – A U.S. District Court judge’s decision giving 17-year-olds over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill known as Plan B “will put minors’ health at greater risk,” according to a pro-life official of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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January 19, 2012

Biblical scholars reject claim about tomb of Jesus

JERUSALEM – Catholic biblical scholars and an Israeli archaeologist rejected filmmakers’ claim that a tomb uncovered nearly 30 years ago in Jerusalem is the burial site of Jesus and his family. Dominican Father Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, a biblical archaeologist and expert in the New Testament at the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem who was...
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January 19, 2012

Chant may gain traction under new missal, but hymnody’s place secure

WASHINGTON – Although the new General Instruction of the Roman Missal has eliminated the use of the word “song” from the General Instruction promulgated just eight years earlier in favor of the word “chant,” don’t be so quick to ditch those hymnals.
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January 19, 2012

Book shows colors of Our Lady of the Angels

The story of Our Lady of the Angels Chapel begins in 1848 with the opening of St. Charles College in Ellicott City.
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January 19, 2012

Lost Calvert Hall ring returned after 40 years

When Calvert Hall 1966 graduate John “Jay” H. Comi served in the Merchant Marine 1967-69 aboard a cruise ship, his heart sank along with his class ring when he realized he lost the gold piece in the surf of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. As a junior, Mr. Comi had received the ring from Calvert...
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January 19, 2012

‘Spiritual Communion’: Youths learn a traditional concept the hard way

VATICAN CITY – More than a million young Catholics learned the hard way about a venerable Catholic tradition: “spiritual Communion” or the “Communion of desire.”
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January 19, 2012

Cristo Rey students do stand up as others step up for school

Streams of people filed past students James Townes, Myesha Green and Gary Spratley in the lobby of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School March 21. Their eyes widened as the crowd grew to more than 300.
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January 19, 2012

Prison ministry program called too religious

ST. LOUIS – The need for states to help inmates turn their lives around was a central but undisputed part of a case before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis Feb. 13. But the question before the judges, including retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, was...
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