Contact Us | Report Misconduct | Catholic Review | Policies | Employment | myArch | Outlook365

News

January 19, 2012

Prayers offered at Capitol for poverty to become a campaign issue

WASHINGTON – The needs of poor and marginalized people deserve the same attention from government officials as the current needs of Wall Street’s failing financial firms, said a group of religious leaders.
Read More
January 19, 2012

Kidney recipients, now friends, train for transplant games

Mike Gahagan jokes that one of his kidneys is Irish and the other Polish. Actually, the kidneys aren’t his. The Irish organ belongs to his brother and the Polish one came from his wife.
Read More
January 19, 2012

Pope, ecumenical leader discuss fate of Christians in Middle East

VATICAN CITY – The Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, gave Pope Benedict XVI a wooden box carved in Syria as a sign of ecumenical concern for the fate of Christians in the Middle East.
Read More
January 19, 2012

Rosedale parish, Knights mark, World Day of Prayer for Peace

The Knights of Columbus and members of St. Clement Mary Hofbauer paused at the Rosedale parish on the morning of Sept. 11 to observe the Knights’ World Day of Prayer for Peace.
Read More
January 19, 2012

Cardinal beatifies Austrian beheaded in 1943

VATICAN CITY – A Vatican cardinal beatified Franz Jagerstatter, an Austrian farmer who was beheaded in 1943 after he refused to fight in Hitler’s army.
Read More
January 19, 2012

Sister retires after 23 years of welcoming the poor at Beans & Bread

Sister Eleanor Noll was part of a small community of Benedictine sisters who relocated to Baltimore in 1971, during a time when nuns were changing not just their traditional habits but also their roles.
Read More
January 19, 2012

Parishes get creative with conservation efforts

They call him Recycle Sam, although his name is Ross. The pastor of St. Casimir, Canton, earned the nickname for encouraging his parishioners to recycle.
Read More
January 19, 2012

Security first for Leo the Lion

At the ripe age of 88, friends of St. Clement, Lansdowne, parishioner Leo Kursch still call him Leo the Lion and his roar continues to attract calls from companies who want him to guard events.
Read More
January 19, 2012

A year of Catholic centennials: Many groups founded in Progressive Era

WASHINGTON – The year 1910 was quite the watershed year for U.S. Catholicism. Catholic Charities USA was founded a hundred years ago. So were the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, followed by the Maryknoll Sisters in 1912. The Crosiers, founded in Europe 700 years ago, decided to place their first outpost in the United States in...
Read More
January 19, 2012

Bishop Malooly installed as 9th bishop of Wilmington

WILMINGTON – In his 38 years of priestly ministry in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Bishop W. Francis Malooly earned a reputation as a man of good humor, deep commitment to his faith, genuine humility and a pastoral sensitivity to others.
Read More
January 19, 2012

Orthodox leader: Battle against prejudices

NAPLES, Italy – The only battle worthy of a religious believer is the battle against his or her own passions and prejudices, said Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople.
Read More
January 19, 2012

Turkey Bowl: Miceli, Brune still giving to Catholic education

Augie Miceli remembers his first Calvert Hall-Loyola football game, the Cardinals’ big upset of the Dons in 1948.
Read More
1 … 1,137 1,138 1,139 1,140 1,141 … 1,758
En español »