WASHINGTON – To those entrusted with husbanding the financial portfolios of Catholic foundations and institutions, the Sept. 29 rejection by the U.S. House of a $700 billion package to shore up the nation’s financial systems posed new concerns about the economy and those charged with overseeing it.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has instituted a new agency to monitor all Vatican financial operations and make sure they meet international norms against money-laundering and the financing of terrorism.Read More
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – The only way to put an end to environmental degradation is for people to live more simply and ethically, said Pope Benedict XVI.Read More
Immaculate Conception, Towson, parishioners have been serving the poor and homeless at Our Daily Bread on the first Sunday of each month since Baltimore’s largest soup kitchen opened more than a quarter century ago. Fittingly, church volunteers were also present June 3 as they served 678 meatloaf dinners during the last supper at the Cathedral...Read More
WASHINGTON – 2010 will be known in many circles as the year of health reform. Among Catholics, it might also be known as the year that caused, as Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George said in his final talk as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a “wound to the church’s unity.”Read More
NEW YORK – A conversation between the Catholic theologian Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete and the outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens was billed as an inquiry into the question “Does science make belief in God obsolete?”Read More
The John Carroll School Bel Air; St. Mary’s High School, Annapolis; and St. Clare School, Essex, have reached Green School status and were officially recognized at the statewide Green School awards ceremony May 31 in Catonsville.Read More
With the Archdiocese of Baltimore not likely to receive an auxiliary bishop to replace Bishop W. Francis Malooly, former western vicar and now bishop of Wilmington, the archdiocese is restructuring its vicariate system.Read More
Golfers will be teeing off June 18 to raise money for St. Agnes HealthCare, Baltimore, in the 29th Annual St. Agnes Foundation/Crothall Healthcare Golf Classic. The tournament will be held at Turf Valley and Waverly Woods Golf Courses.Read More
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Knights of Columbus denied allegations made in two lawsuits filed Dec. 14 that the fraternal organization did not address claims that a former Knight abused two men decades ago when they were young and tried to conceal the allegations.Read More