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January 19, 2012

Boys Hope participants excited to head off to college

When Marc Franklin first walked through the doors of Boys Hope at the age of 12, he remembers being “scared, but really excited at the same time.”
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January 19, 2012

Spring sprucing tips to sell your home

Spring cleaning takes on a whole new meaning when preparing to sell a house. Nina Sloan, an agent for Long and Foster Realtors in Lutherville, suggests some easy and inexpensive design tips to help people sell their home as quickly as possible. Ms. Sloan recommends getting someone else, an agent or someone who does home...
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January 19, 2012

Chorale shares Irish heritage

Have vocal cords, will travel.
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January 19, 2012

Faith-based groups look for unified fight against HIV

MEXICO CITY – Early in the 1990s, AIDS appeared to be ravaging Haiti in the same way the virus was devastating sub-Saharan Africa; almost 10 percent of the adults of the impoverished Caribbean island were HIV-positive, and the number was increasing every year.
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January 19, 2012

Cardinal Rigali’s Lenten reflections a hit on YouTube

PHILADELPHIA – Who’s that you’re seeing on YouTube? Yes, it is really Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia. The cardinal is providing video reflections for each Sunday of Lent, as well as for Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter on the free, video-sharing Web site, which allows users to upload, view and share video clips. Once...
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January 19, 2012

English Catholic adoption agency appeals Charity Commission’s decision

LONDON – The last remaining Catholic adoption agency in England has filed an appeal against a decision by the Charity Commission for England and Wales forbidding it to turn away same-sex couples as potential adopters and foster parents.
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January 19, 2012

Gibbons football off to fresh start as quarterback returns from Israel

With a new coach in 1987 alum Scott Ripley, the football program at The Cardinal Gibbons School, Baltimore, is ready for a change.
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January 19, 2012

Federal funding urged for cord-blood collection

WASHINGTON – Lack of federal funding could jeopardize therapeutic advances made in using umbilical cord blood for curing diseases, said Richard Doerflinger, deputy director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. Doerflinger told Catholic News Service that the bishops supported the 2005 law which authorized funds for collecting and storing cord blood and for...
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January 19, 2012

In Respect Life message, cardinal promotes world vigil for life Nov. 27

WASHINGTON – In a message marking Respect Life Month in October, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities called on U.S. Catholics to join Pope Benedict XVI in a worldwide vigil “for all nascent human life” on the Saturday evening of Thanksgiving weekend.
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January 19, 2012

St. Augustine a mother church for black Catholics

Last week St. Augustine Church in Washington, D.C., celebrated its 150th anniversary. St. Augustine is often referred to as the “Mother” Church of black Catholics in Washington. (When it was founded, St. Augustine was part of the Archdiocese of Baltimore).
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January 19, 2012

Anemia may affect the mind

Doctors have long known of the connection between anemia and physical ailments like fatigue and muscle weakness. Now researchers at Johns Hopkins believe there is a relationship between anemia and mental health, too. Anemia is a condition in which blood is deficient in oxygen-rich red blood cells, hemoglobin or total volume.
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January 19, 2012

Virginia executes woman; Kentucky execution stayed indefinitely

WASHINGTON – Virginia executed 41-year-old Teresa Lewis with a lethal injection Sept. 23, making her the first woman to be executed in the commonwealth since 1912 and only the 12th woman to be put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.
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