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January 19, 2012

Deacons’ wives supportive of ministry

Severna Park resident Keith Chase is well aware he has an understanding and supportive wife. After all, he is an ordained deacon, and he has a demanding job with a Baltimore financial firm, four children under the age of 9 and a foreign-exchange student living with his family.
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January 19, 2012

Pending Florida, Oregon executions face church objections

WASHINGTON – As Florida’s Supreme Court lifted a stay of execution for Manuel Valle, clearing the path for him to be put to death Sept. 6, the state’s Catholic bishops urged Gov. Rick Scott to stop it.
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January 19, 2012

Tyrrell spread the Gospel among African-Americans

Songwriter Samuel W. Beazley wrote in his song “The Gospel News”: “Tell the Word of Life to all who may be found wand’ring far from God. … Tell out the Gospel news; preach it, teach it, tell it, that all may know Jesus the savior, who loves them so. Spread abroad the Gospel news.” And...
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January 19, 2012

Oklahomans say electric power a blessing after ice storm

TULSA, Okla. – When a businessman donated a generator to the Church of the Madalene Dec. 15, grateful parishioners responded in kind, preparing a big spaghetti dinner and going door to door in their power-starved midtown Tulsa neighborhood to invite people to come for a hot meal.
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January 19, 2012

New All Saints helps fill supermarket void in city

The Howard Park Community’s collective voice has been heard, and their prayers are on the verge of being answered.
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January 19, 2012

Pope appeals for African families, condemns promotion of abortion

LUANDA, Angola – Addressing Angolan political leaders and an international group of diplomats, Pope Benedict XVI appealed on behalf of African families struggling from the effects of poverty, disease and war.
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January 19, 2012

Catholics remember Charles G. Tildon Jr.

Charles G. Tildon Jr., who served the church in a variety of capacities and received the papal honor of being named to the Knights of St. Gregory the Great, died Dec. 16 of cancer. He was 81.
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January 19, 2012

Mood changes as pope, young people reflect on suffering in Way of Cross

MADRID – The mood at World Youth Day changed dramatically late Aug. 19 as Pope Benedict XVI and hundreds of thousands of young people turned their thoughts to suffering.
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January 19, 2012

Programs to ‘adopt’ women in formation seen as way to help vocations

WASHINGTON – “Adopt-a-seminarian” programs to support and encourage young men studying for the priesthood are pretty common in U.S. dioceses, and programs like that for young women could help foster vocations to religious life, said Benedictine Sister Michelle Catherine Sinkhorn.
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January 19, 2012

Biblical diary by Chinese Catholics goes into second print

MACAU – A biblical diary with scriptural reflections by Chinese Catholics went into its second print run in less than a month.
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January 19, 2012

Congo war refugee ministers to Good Samaritan patients

Forced in 1996 to flee the war-ravaged Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), 21-year-old Guy Kagere found refuge in neighboring Zambia, where he ended up living with American and European missionaries.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop pushes for full repeal of Maryland’s death penalty

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien reiterated his support for the repeal of Maryland’s death penalty during a House of Delegates Judiciary Committee hearing in Annapolis March 17.
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