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January 19, 2012

Shelter kits provide short-term solution for 35,000 homeless Haitians

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A pregnant Germaine Sylace struggled to get control of the two tarps, a plastic bin of nails and 100 feet of nylon rope. Nothing was going to stop her from making sure her family would be sleeping under something better than a couple of thin bed sheets tied together with string.
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January 19, 2012

Food cards are key for homeless quake victims in search of a meal

PETIONVILLE, Haiti – Hundreds of people lined up in the center of Petionville early Feb. 1 as the U.N. food distribution system began making its way into the neighborhoods and suburbs of Port-au-Prince.
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January 19, 2012

U.S. bishops call for a long-term strategy in Haiti to reduce poverty

WASHINGTON - The United States needs “a long-term coherent strategy for recovery, development and poverty reduction in Haiti,” said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace in a Jan. 26 letter to officials in the Obama administration.
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January 19, 2012

St. Clare helps Haiti

Students around the Archdiocese of Baltimore are not only celebrating Catholic Schools’ Week theme of “Dividends for Life,” they are living it when it relates to helping victims of the recent Haiti earthquake.
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January 19, 2012

Remembering Holocaust, pope prays for respect for all people

VATICAN CITY – Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope Benedict XVI prayed that honoring the memory of the 6 million Jews who died in the Nazi death camps would lead everyone to greater respect for each human being.
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January 19, 2012

Pope names woman undersecretary of justice and peace council

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has named a laywoman undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, marking the first time in more than 20 years that a woman has served as undersecretary of a pontifical council.
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January 19, 2012

Lord, please don’t hear this prayer – yet again

This past Dec. 28, I was jolted out of my morning fog at 8 a.m. Mass when the deacon offered this petition:
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January 19, 2012

Missionaries of Charity say their staffers in Haiti are safe

CALCUTTA, India – The Missionaries of Charity have expressed relief that their nuns working in Haiti are safe.
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January 19, 2012

Mount St. Joe basketball star is Notre Dame-bound

For four seasons, Eric Atkins has been a mainstay of Mount St. Joseph’s varsity basketball.
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January 19, 2012

New York doctor works to deliver care consistent with Catholic values

NEW YORK – “Catholic women in many communities feel they have no access to health care that is consistent with their values,” said the founding director of a new women’s medical center in midtown Manhattan that will provide “authentically Catholic” primary care, obstetrics, natural family planning and infertility treatment.
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January 19, 2012

Sister of Bon Secours takes ‘leap of faith’

Before she entered the Sisters of Bon Secours, Sister Bernadette “Bernie” Claps had a very successful career in social work, a nice town house that she lived in for 16 years and a great network of friends and colleagues. She had reached her 50s, loved life and thought for sure she was “pretty much settled.”
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January 19, 2012

Silence is consent on health care reform

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien released the following statement Dec. 24, after the U.S. Senate passed its version of a health care reform bill:
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