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January 19, 2012

IED wounds account for many of Walter Reeds injuries

WASHINGTON – Along with all the other military jargon and abbreviations, a relatively new term keeps bubbling up to the surface at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, as well as in popular parlance: IED. It’s short for improvised explosive device. IEDs account for a large share of the wounds sustained by U.S. soldiers in Iraq...
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January 19, 2012

Exhibit shows impact U.S. nuns, past and present, have had on nation

WASHINGTON – A gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington has taken on a mystical quality in the form of an exhibit called “Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America.”
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January 19, 2012

Diocese works to eliminate stigma of AIDS

SHENYANG, China (CNS) -- For World AIDS Day, the nuns leafleted the train stations in Liaoning province, and members of parish youth groups handed out information at parishes. But while many agencies offer AIDS awareness programs for World AIDS Day each Dec. 1, the Diocese of Liaoning offers such programs year-round, said Immaculate Heart of...
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January 19, 2012

Power of prayer during Lent

Prayer is communication with God. When we pray, God talks to us, and we talk to God. We listen to God, and God listens to us. Prayer connects us with God.
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January 19, 2012

Father Murphy new chaplain at Towson University

After three years at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Middle River, Father T. Austin Murphy will be leaving July 1 to become the new chaplain of the Newman Center at Towson University. “As a priest you don’t forget your first parish,” said Father Murphy, 34, who is a graduate of University of Maryland Baltimore County....
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January 19, 2012

Web site showcases South African church’s diversity to World Cup fans

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The diversity of the church in South Africa and its many ministries and programs are being promoted to thousands of World Cup soccer fans on a new Web site launched by the country’s bishops.
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January 19, 2012

Court hears arguments over issue ads in campaign season

WASHINGTON – A campaign finance reform law that limits certain types of “issue” advertising shortly before elections should not preclude ads that specifically mention a politician facing a tight election, the Supreme Court was told April 25 by the attorney representing Wisconsin Right to Life. In oral arguments on the court’s last day to hear...
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January 19, 2012

100 traditionalist Anglican parishes seek to join Catholic Church

ORLANDO, Fla. – About 100 traditionalist Anglican parishes in the United States have decided to join the Catholic Church as a group.
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January 19, 2012

Abortion decision will reorient moral culture

Calling partial-birth abortion a “gruesome procedure virtually indistinguishable from infanticide,” Cardinal William H. Keeler hailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision April 18 upholding a ban on the late-term abortion procedure. The cardinal, former head of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, said the court has “taken an important step in reorienting the moral...
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January 19, 2012

New Latin American group has sights on building unity across borders

MEXICO CITY – Simon Bolivar, known as the Liberator of the Americas, dreamed of a united Latin America, stretching from the Northern Mexico to Tierra del Fuego. He is credited with winning independence of at least five South American countries in the early 1800s. And he remains revered in those countries and much of Latin...
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January 19, 2012

Church leaders to go ahead with dedication

WARSAW, Poland – Church leaders have vowed to press ahead with the dedication of a Catholic church in Azerbaijan a week after it was damaged by attackers. “The opening will undoubtedly take place – there’ve been no changes in our program,” said Father Rolandas Makrickas, an official at the Vatican’s Tbilisi-based nunciature. The newly completed...
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January 19, 2012

Cardinal Gibbons School among those being consolidated, confirms a member of its board

The Cardinal Gibbons School is among those being consolidated by the Archdiocese of Baltimore, according to the school’s Web site and a member of the school’s Board of Trustees.
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