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January 19, 2012

St. Leo IX

St. Leo IX was born in June 1002 in Egisheim, Alsace. He was a deacon, and he was a soldier and officer in the imperial army. He became a bishop in France in 1021 and then became the 151st pope in February of 1049. He fought simony, which is the selling or purchase of spiritual...
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January 19, 2012

Vatican urges measures to lessen number of maternal deaths

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has urged the international community to implement social and health care measures to reduce what it called the “shocking” number of maternal deaths around the world.
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January 19, 2012

St. John I, pope

St. John I was born in Italy and became the 53rd pope in 523. He was the first pope to go to Constantinople when he traveled there to speak to and crown Emperor Justin I. When St. John returned to home, the Italy’s ruler, Theodoric, thought the pope had plotted against him with the emperor....
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January 19, 2012

Gingriches’ film on Pope John Paul II made as an ‘act of devotion’

SAN DIEGO – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich seems to be everywhere these days.
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January 19, 2012

St. Vito

St. Vito was born to a pagan senator, but his tutor (St. Modestus) and his nurse (St. Crescentia) converted St. Vito to Christianity when he was 12 years old. Angered, St. Vito’s father had the three arrested and imprisoned, but the saints were released by angels. After helping the emperor’s son, St. Vito refused to...
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January 19, 2012

Church and state: In Mexico, new reality or pragmatic politics?

MEXICO CITY – The pre-Christmas audience between Pope Benedict XVI and Enrique Pena Nieto, governor of the country’s most populous state, captured enormous attention in Mexico – and generated no shortage of scandalous headlines, too.
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January 19, 2012

St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria

St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria was born in Italy in 1502. After working with the poor, he felt he had a calling to a religious life. He gave his mother his inheritance and was ordained when he was 26. He established two congregations while in Milan: the Society of Clerics of St. Paul (the Barnabites) for...
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January 19, 2012

Study finds lasting problems for those conceived through sperm donation

WASHINGTON – Those who were conceived through sperm donation are more likely to experience depression, delinquency and substance abuse than their counterparts who were adopted or raised by their biological parents, according to a new survey by the New York-based Commission on Parenthood’s Future.
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January 19, 2012

St. Eusebius of Vercelli

St. Eusebius of Vercelli was born in Sardinia in 283. He was a priest in Rome who became the bishop of Vercelli, Italy, Dec. 16, 340. The saint fought against Arianism, a heresy which denied Christ’s divinity. At one point he was exiled to Palestine due to his battle with the heresy. Friends of St....
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January 19, 2012

Bel Air’s St. Margaret School is major benefactor of another St. Rose of Lima School in Haiti

When images of the girls’ schools in Port-au-Prince named for St. Rose of Lima were disseminated after the Jan. 12 earthquake, students of St. Margaret School in Bel Air reacted with concern and empathy.
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January 19, 2012

St. Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo was born Nov. 13, 354, in North Africa to St. Monica and her husband. Although he was born a Christian, he wandered from his faith and lived wildly. He was a Manichaean for a number of years before he converted; St. Ambrose of Milan baptized him. After his mother’s death, he...
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January 19, 2012

St. Thomas More Academy recognized as a Catholic school

After years of discussion, St. Thomas More Academy in Buckeystown has been recognized by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien as a Catholic school.
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