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January 19, 2012

Bishop Finn, diocese plead not guilty to failure to report child abuse

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Bishop Robert W. Finn and the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, which he heads, entered pleas of not guilty to misdemeanor charges of failure to report child abuse.
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January 19, 2012

On plane, pope says pilgrimage can help cause of peace

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO JORDAN – En route to Jordan, Pope Benedict XVI said he hoped his Holy Land pilgrimage would aid the Middle East peace process by highlighting the value of prayer and convincing people to leave behind factional interests.
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January 19, 2012

People’s anti-immigrant bias comes from not knowing them

LAREDO, Texas – People are biased against immigrants because they don’t know them, said the director of a migrant shelter in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.
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January 19, 2012

Learn from basketball

Though a Catholic since birth, I do not understand the concept of “Catholic guilt.” Many Saturdays I watched my nephews play basketball. During every time out and at halftime, their coach would point out all the things they were doing wrong. Often the referee would stop the game with a shrill whistle and loudly announce...
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January 19, 2012

Some Mideast Christians face restrictions in efforts to see pope

JERUSALEM – Middle East Christians hoping to see Pope Benedict XVI during his May 8-15 pilgrimage to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories faced some travel restrictions.
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January 19, 2012

Rev. Jesse Jackson bolsters participants of service

Baltimore clergy in several Christian faiths joined together Jan. 21 to celebrate the life of slain civil rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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January 19, 2012

Anti-bank protests spread from Wall Street to major U.S. cities

WASHINGTON – What started as a smallish protest in a New York City park in mid-September to rail against banks and wealthy Americans for their seeming indifference to the plight of poor and working-class Americans in a sluggish economy has spread to several major U.S. cities.
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January 19, 2012

Souter’s court legacy mixed on abortion, First Amendment cases

WASHINGTON – As Justice David Souter prepares to retire this summer after 19 years on the Supreme Court, he leaves a mixed legacy of jurisprudence: not so friendly to pro-life perspectives on cases involving abortion, but sometimes strong for religious interests in First Amendment areas.
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January 19, 2012

Catholic schools consortium makes great strides

The newly formed Mid-Atlantic Catholic Schools Consortium has made significant strides strengthening Catholic education in the year since the Annapolis-based organization was launched, according to Dr. Mary Ellen Hrutka, executive director.
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January 19, 2012

Keeping Sunday sacred is ‘summit, source’ of Catholicism, cardinal says

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Cardinal Francis Arinze told attendees at the Diocese of Charlotte’s eucharistic congress that “religion is not an option.”
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January 19, 2012

Weigel shouldn’t dismiss Obama aspirations

Today, when the faintest wisp of optimism is a gift, it’s more than disappointing to read George Weigel, one of the nation’s sharpest Catholic minds, dismiss many of the president’s national aspirations as a “familiar litany of liberal … shibboleths.” (CR, April 23). I would prefer: Aspirations for peace yet unrealized, but worth the striving!
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January 19, 2012

Apply now for life-changing experience next summer

Each year, the Missions Office offers a limited number of students the chance to volunteer for one week at a summer camp – in another country. Often they go to Haiti; last year they went to El Salvador.
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