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January 19, 2012

Maryvale’s Sister Shawn to make next school year her last

BROOKLANDVILLE – Just a week removed from the end of the school year, Sister Shawn Marie Maguire gathered her faculty and staff together in mid-June for some news: the next academic year will be the Sister of Notre Dame de Namur’s last as president and headmistress of all-girls Maryvale Preparatory School.
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January 19, 2012

Ministry supports couples facing troubled pregnancies

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Cubby LaHood will never forget the news her doctor told her 20 years ago.
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January 19, 2012

Bioethicist calls suicide bill ‘implicitly anti-Catholic’

SAN FRANCISCO – Calling proposed California physician-assisted suicide legislation “strongly and implicitly anti-Catholic” and accusing its advocates of “trying to bend the Catholic Church’s moral teaching to the will of the culture of death agenda,” an international expert on bioethics urged listeners at a May 7 lecture to do everything in their power to help...
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January 19, 2012

Catholic Relief services names Woo to serve as president and CEO

Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services announced June 24 that its Board of Directors has named Dr. Carolyn Y. Woo, a former member of the CRS Board, to serve as the agency’s president and CEO. Woo will succeed Ken Hackett, who is retiring after leading CRS for the past 18 years.
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January 19, 2012

Scranton bishop announces final decisions on parish restructuring

SCRANTON, Pa. – Citing population shifts, dwindling finances, overworked priests and the fact that many Catholics “are not actively practicing their faith,” Scranton’s bishop announced a major parish restructuring plan that will close some parishes and merge others.
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January 19, 2012

Mercy doctor’s passion for running

Every Thursday morning Doctor Charles Edwards II runs from his home in Ruxton to his office in the Maryland Spine Center at Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore. The route is about nine miles. Dr. Edwards has been running since his days of cross country and track in middle school. When he was just 10 years old...
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January 19, 2012

Professor says pro-life faculty often feel isolated on campus for views

NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Many pro-life faculty on college campuses in the United States and Canada have experienced a strong sense of isolation and disrespect for their views, said the newly installed president of University Faculty for Life.
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January 19, 2012

Mountain Maryland parishes reduce Mass offerings

Responding to the priest shortage and low attendance, St. Gabriel in Barton and St. Mary of the Annunciation in Lonaconing have stopped celebrating weekend Masses.
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January 19, 2012

Humans do cause climate change

I noticed several inaccuracies in the letter sent by Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen titled: “Scientists divided on issue of global warming” (CR, April 26). In this response I will address Dr. Sheahen’s comments on the consensus of scientist’s concerning human-induced climate change and his comments on recent global temperatures as compared to those of the...
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January 19, 2012

Charter revisions approved but work must continue, bishop says

BELLEVUE, Wash. – The U.S. bishops overwhelmingly approved extensive revisions to their 2002 “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” June 16, but the bishop who heads up their efforts to confront the clergy sex abuse crisis said it must remain “a front-burner issue.”
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January 19, 2012

Two top 10 lists equal the best film viewing of 2008

NEW YORK – At the start of the new year, and with the Academy Awards fast approaching, the Office for Film & Broadcasting takes its annual look back at the past year in movies, singling out the worthiest for commendation.
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January 19, 2012

For religious who study abroad, returning can be a challenge

BEIJING (CNS) -- Studying abroad can help Chinese priests and nuns understand the universal church, but it also can cause a culture shock when they return to their country. Sister Pauline Yu Chunjing was 34 years old and still had one year of study left at New York's Fordham University when the Sisters of Our...
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