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January 19, 2012

Latin American bishops highlight rise in drug-related problems

LIMA, Peru – A series of drug arrests in the United States and the arrival of Mexican troops in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, have drawn increased attention to drug trafficking, a problem highlighted by the region’s Catholic bishops.
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January 19, 2012

Retired cardinal explains why he won’t celebrate Tridentine Mass

ROME – Although he loves the Latin language and would have no technical difficulty even preaching in Latin, retired Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini of Milan, Italy, said he would not celebrate the Tridentine Mass.
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January 19, 2012

Indictment of Sudanese president seen as step toward peace in Sudan

WASHINGTON – The International Criminal Court’s issuance of an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity opens the door for the United States to help bring peace to the war-torn nation, said author and anti-genocide activist John Prendergast.
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January 19, 2012

Joy, holiness called keys to attracting African-American vocations

NEW ORLEANS – Manifesting joy and living a life of holiness are fundamental ways to attract young African-American men to consider a vocation to the priesthood, Redemptorist Father Maurice Nutt of Memphis, Tenn., told the joint convention of the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus and the National Black Sisters’ Conference July 25. The conference, attended...
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January 19, 2012

Priest offers mediation after Real IRA threatens Northern Irish police

LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland – A Catholic priest in Northern Ireland has offered to meet dissident Republican paramilitaries who have threatened to “execute” Catholic members of the region’s police service.
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January 19, 2012

Church shelter helps Central Americans en route to U.S.

TIERRA BLANCA, Mexico – On a recent evening at the Guadalupe Migrant Shelter, the atmosphere was festive: Volunteers joked, played guitars and loaded enormous steaming pots of beans and rice into the back of a pickup truck. Then they were off, heading to the dusty railroad tracks that pass through the center of this sweltering...
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January 19, 2012

Charter review will look at Philadelphia abuse situation, bishop says

WASHINGTON – When the U.S. bishops meet in Seattle in June, they will review implementation of the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” nearly 10 years after its 2002 passage.
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January 19, 2012

Church leaders explore ways to slow Christian exodus from Middle East

VATICAN CITY – The need to find ways to stop the slow, yet steady departure of Christians from the Middle East has come into greater focus recently.
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January 19, 2012

Pope calls for end to ‘useless slaughter’ of war

LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI called for an end to the “useless slaughter” of war and asked that “the rule of law” replace the recourse to weapons.
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January 19, 2012

St. Mary’s Seminary commemorates Shoah

St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Roland Park remembered the victims of the Holocaust, or Shoah, with its 26th annual Yom HaShoah Memorial April 13.
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January 19, 2012

Balancing school work and activities requires time management

Marge Steele’s two high-schoolers think they have too much homework – most students do. Mrs. Steele agrees with her sophomore and senior sons who attend Calvert Hall College High School, Towson.
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January 19, 2012

Defunding Planned Parenthood not a hard budget choice, cardinal says

WASHINGTON – At a time when federal budget decisions “involve hard choices and much shared sacrifice,” a decision on whether to fund the Planned Parenthood Federation of America “is not one of those hard choices,” the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities told members of Congress.
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