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January 19, 2012

Consolidated schools focus on positive despite fate

Oblate Sister of Providence Rita Michelle Proctor, principal of Mother Mary Lange Catholic School in northeast Baltimore, looked forward to the day when her school’s namesake, the foundress of her order, would be canonized in Rome.
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January 19, 2012

‘Mr. & Mrs. Wal-Mart’

Allen Cohen sat comfortably at the head of his dining room table, chin in hand, elbow on tabletop, listening to his Italian wife of 60 years chatter about the two of them. He obviously had adapted a long time ago – being married 60 years Aug. 30 – to Jean Cohen’s liveliness and ability to...
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January 19, 2012

Cleanup comes slowly, housing a priority in devastated Chilean towns

LIMA, Peru – Cleanup is beginning in towns on Chile’s central coast as electricity and telephone service is slowly restored and people try to rebuild their lives after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake killed nearly 800 people and caused millions of dollars in damage.
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January 19, 2012

Filipinos gather to mark statue installation

Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore, usually is traditional, but the Sept. 23 afternoon Mass featured worshippers in aboriginal garb, the exuberant sound of drums and singing in the Tagalog language.
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January 19, 2012

Gypsies in Europe still face discrimination, Vatican officials say

VATICAN CITY – Undoubtedly the most discriminated minority group in Europe, the Gypsies experience the impact of firmly rooted stereotypes every day, said a Vatican official.
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January 19, 2012

Tony Blair to be speaker at annual Al Smith dinner

NEW YORK – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is scheduled to be the guest speaker at the 62nd Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner Oct. 18 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. Catholic New York, the archdiocesan newspaper, reported recently that Blair had accepted Cardinal Edward M. Egan’s invitation to speak.
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January 19, 2012

Bishops in Japan ask world leaders to work for end of nuclear weapons

TOKYO – Bishops from Hiroshima and Nagasaki called on world leaders to work toward the total abolition of nuclear weapons.
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January 19, 2012

Pope’s refusal to meet Rice should not be seen as snub

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI declined to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during his August vacation, but Vatican officials said it should not be interpreted as a diplomatic snub. “The only reason she wasn’t received was that she came during a period when the pope doesn’t receive anyone. It was a...
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January 19, 2012

Airport security must respect human dignity, pope says

VATICAN CITY – Anti-terrorist measures at airports should always respect the principles of human dignity, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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January 19, 2012

DI coaches look at Patriot prospects

According to Anthony Macri, The John Carroll School, Bel Air, boys’ assistant basketball coach, the Patriots recently played host to 25 collegiate basketball coaches and staff during the first week of what is known as the “Open Period.” Sept. 9 marked the first date in the NCAA’s recruitment calendar that Division I schools have an...
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January 19, 2012

Pope to canonize Mary MacKillop, Andre Bessette Oct. 17

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will create six new saints Oct. 17, including Blessed Mary MacKillop, who will be Australia’s first saint, and the Canadian Blessed Andre Bessette, who will be the first saint of the Holy Cross Brothers.
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January 19, 2012

Lost miners remembered at church services

HUNTINGTON, Utah –The wrenching search for six lost miners was over, leaving only funerals, a public memorial service and a private committal service for the three Catholic miners attended by family members. A funeral Mass for Luis Hernandez and Juan Carlos Payan was celebrated Sept. 6 at Mission San Rafael in Huntington. Concelebrated by Father...
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