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January 19, 2012

Church must address role of Internet in identity, community

VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church and particularly its social teaching must begin to grapple with the potential and the problems posed by the Internet, particularly when dealing with questions about personal identity, community involvement and solidarity, several social scientists said.
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January 19, 2012

Sacred Heart of Jesus celebrates first Mass with added communities

When it was first announced in February that St. Michael Parish in Fells Point was closing and joining an expanding bilingual community at Sacred Heart of Jesus a mile away in Highlandtown, longtime parishioner Pamela Perc wasn’t sure what to do.
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January 19, 2012

Students, parents boast about bill to politicians

About 500 Catholic and private school students, parents and teachers lobbied state officials March 4 with the hope of securing support for a crucial education bill.
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January 19, 2012

Teacher soothes patients with therapeutic music program

Babies cry less when they hear the sound of the harp. That’s not a mothering tip but an observation of nurses in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, on days when harpist Cathy Maglaras wheels in her 12-pound Celtic instrument to strum tenderly in the company of incubated preemies.
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January 19, 2012

Daughters of Charity to form new U.S. province

Four existing U.S. provinces of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul are merging into a single province to be known as the “Province of St. Louise.”
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January 19, 2012

Ignatian volunteers ‘find God in all things’

They mentor developmentally disabled adults, help poor people avoid foreclosure and teach homeless women how to reduce debt.
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January 19, 2012

Experts say high food prices permanent; bishops urge help for poor

LIMA, Peru – As protests over rising food costs spread around the globe, experts warn that high prices are here to stay, and Catholic bishops are calling for governments to take emergency measures to keep their poorest citizens from going hungry.
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January 19, 2012

Judge dismisses lawsuit against funding embryonic stem-cell research

WASHINGTON - Attorneys for two scientists who use only adult stem cells in their work said they were “weighing all of their options for appeal” after a Washington judge ruled July 27 that federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research may continue.
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January 19, 2012

Taizé pilgrimage helps deepen faith

As dozens of flickering candles gently illuminated the darkened church, hundreds of pilgrims reverently approached an icon of the crucifix laid out in the center aisle of St. Mary of the Assumption in Govans Feb. 27.
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January 19, 2012

‘Cool, Man, Real Cool …’ Preaching about Jesus offers opportunity to reach youths

Several years ago, when I was Archbishop for the Military Archdiocese, I experienced an unexpected, but very memorable, encounter during a long midnight layover in Anchorage on a pastoral visit to our bases in the Far East.
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January 19, 2012

Lessons in having it all

Someone once wisely said, “Money can’t buy happiness, but we’re all willing to give it a second chance!”
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January 19, 2012

Vatican official to attend Holocaust memorial rededication in Boston

BRAINTREE, Mass. – The Vatican’s top official on Catholic-Jewish relations will attend a March 25 rededication of a Holocaust memorial menorah that symbolizes the close relationship between the Catholic and Jewish communities in Boston.
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