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January 19, 2012

Kidnappers release two Chaldean Catholic priests in Iraq

The kidnapped rector of the Chaldean Catholic seminary and a kidnapped parish priest in Baghdad, Iraq, have been released. The Rome-based AsiaNews agency reported Dec. 11 the reasons for the priest's abduction and release were still unknown, but it said the rector's health "was fine."
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January 19, 2012

Maryland man files abuse suit against priest, Illinois religious order

CHICAGO – A Maryland man filed a civil suit April 14 in U.S. District Court in Chicago claiming that a priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart sexually abused him over an eight-year period when he was a child in the 1980s.
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January 19, 2012

Mr. Cao goes to Washington as first Vietnamese-American in Congress

NEW ORLEANS – If his recent whirlwind tour of Capitol Hill was any indication, Anh “Joseph” Cao knows he will be in for the ride of his life over the next two years.
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January 19, 2012

Haiti Gala of Hope yields outpouring of donations

Kathleen Crocken won $525 during the 50/50 raffle at the annual Gala of Hope on Oct. 21. No sooner was the money in her grasp that she handed it right back to Deacon Rodrigue Mortel, M.D., who serves as director of the Office of the Propagation of the Faith and the Baltimore/Haiti project for the...
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January 19, 2012

Protect rights, well-being of circus workers, animals, says Vatican

VATICAN CITY – The rights of circus and carnival workers must be protected and circus animals must be properly cared for and treated ethically, said a top Vatican official.
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January 19, 2012

Ex-cop leads crew at New Cathedral Cemetery

Frederick V. Roussey heads a cemetery crew like the city cop he once was. The day begins with morning roll call in the house at a corner of New Cathedral Cemetery, where he is superintendent. There, he dispatches his crew in new fire-engine-red trucks to the 125-acre cemetery in West Baltimore.
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January 19, 2012

St. Paul the Hermit

St. Paul the Hermit was born in Egypt circa 230. He fled when Decius began persecuting Christians. St. Paul lived in the desert as a hermit for the rest of his life. He wore leaves and ate fruit and water to survive. He died in 342. St. Paul the Hermit is patron saint of weavers.
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January 19, 2012

Immigration stance wrong

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien’s column “Immigration a Test of Faith” (CR, Feb. 24) is a test of faith to read on the part of this Catholic who cannot understand the position he is taking on immigrants who are here in this country illegally. Instead of focusing on fixing the perceived problem with the immigration process...
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January 19, 2012

Follow Mary’s example, archbishop urges

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien urged Catholics to follow the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary by accepting God’s will despite fears and worries.
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January 19, 2012

St. Conrad of Piacenza

St. Conrad of Piacenza, born to nobility, mistakenly started a fire which spread to forests and villages. A peasant was condemned to death for the fire, but St. Conrad confessed to save the man’s life. After paying for damages, he joined a group of Franciscan hermits and was known to have the gift of healing....
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January 19, 2012

State limits on child sex abuse cases make for a confusing picture

WASHINGTON – When two men alleged that they had been abused in Texas during the 1970s and ’80s by a man associated with the youth wing of the Knights of Columbus, they filed suit not in Texas but in Connecticut, where the Knights’ national headquarters is located.
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January 19, 2012

Same-sex marriage vote said no sign of disregard for gay Catholics

LOS ANGELES – In a message to homosexual Catholics in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony and the six auxiliary bishops of the archdiocese said the recent vote in California defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman “does not diminish in any way (your) importance” nor “lessen your...
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