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January 19, 2012

U.S. church official says Haiti desperately needs political stability

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti desperately needs political stability so that jobs can be created to lift the poor out of a critical situation, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Policy.
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January 19, 2012

School’s baseball lineage more poignant with imminent closing

One week before the start of this baseball season, Matt Foster received gut-punching news. The first-year coach of Cardinal Gibbons High School, where he was a 2001 graduate, learned that the Archdiocese of Baltimore would close the institution in June for financial reasons
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January 19, 2012

The Church’s Beacon Shines Brightly

An article in last weekend’s New York Times dramatized the victimization of foreigners living in our country without proper documentation and the frenzied, all out effort of some to capture and prosecute them as criminals. Pastors across the country – including our own Archdiocese – tell of raids upon young immigrants who are simply seeking...
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January 19, 2012

Parents say media frenzy shouldn’t lead to fear of oversea adoptions

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In the wake of the international media frenzy surrounding the story of a Tennessee woman who recently sent her 7-year-old adopted son back to Russia unaccompanied, Carrie Krenson of Nashville’s Cathedral of the Incarnation is eager to share her “boring old story” of adopting two children from Russia.
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January 19, 2012

Loyola sets new records with fundraising efforts

Loyola College in Maryland enjoyed yet another record-setting fundraising year in 2007-08. At fiscal year-end May 31, gifts received totaled $10,113,000, the highest single-year total in college history.
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January 19, 2012

Shroud of Turin is way to contemplate the face of God, expert says

TURIN, Italy – The Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be Christ’s burial cloth, offers Christians a way to contemplate God’s face and reflect on the meaning of Christian suffering, said an expert on sacred art.
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January 19, 2012

Justice Action Week’s impact lingers for alumni

Patrick Terranova has seen the social injustices that haunt many of Baltimore’s streets, and he’s compelled to try and make a change.
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January 19, 2012

Octogenarian plus: At 83, things are getting busy for Pope Benedict

VATICAN CITY – Almost lost in the recent furor over clerical sex abuse is that Pope Benedict XVI just turned 83 and is approaching one of the busiest stretches of his pontificate.
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January 19, 2012

Addressing racism requires a new language, ministry leaders say

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- It doesn't take long for newcomers at St. Matthew Church in Baltimore to be welcomed by parishioners.
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January 19, 2012

Believing is seeing

During Lent I had the privilege of leading a couple of evenings of reflection at St. Casimir in Canton. After one of the services, a lady told me about the parish during WWII. She said that right across from the church was a packing plant. Among the workers there were a number of German soldiers...
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January 19, 2012

Triplets’ dedication to scouts pays off

If there’s one thing the Podhorniak family knows, it is how to get things done. Rosemary Podhorniak smiles when she talks about her triplet sons - Nicholas, Matthew and Jimmy - ascending to Eagle Scout status May 21 in a ceremony at St. Joseph, Fullerton, but the boys just shrug their shoulders as if to...
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January 19, 2012

OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF ARCHBISHOP WILLIAM D. BORDERS

Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, Archbishop of Baltimore, announced today that Archbishop William D. Borders, 13th Archbishop of Baltimore, died this morning at 10:03 at Stella Maris in Timonium. He was 96 years old.
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