While the NCAA and local and national media tend to focus upon specific signing dates for specific sports, Archbishop Spalding, Severn, found a date that drew the most student-athletes, recognizing all sports and all levels of collegian participation.Read More
As I opened some mail last month, the following letter greeted me: “By the time you have read this I will have passed away. I have asked God to forgive me and hope that you will pray for my soul to go to heaven with Jesus.”Read More
DUBLIN, Ireland – The 18 Irish religious congregations implicated in the abuse of children in their care say they do not wish to renegotiate a controversial deal in which they received indemnity from being sued by victims in exchange for contributing to a victim's compensation fund.Read More
MIAMI – Pardon the yawn, but that is how Cubans in Florida reacted to the news of Fidel Castro’s resignation as president of Cuba. “It’s a different dog with the same fleas,” said Monsignor Pedro Luis Perez, pastor of San Lazaro Parish in Hialeah, using a colloquial Spanish saying, “Es el mismo perro con otro...Read More
WASHINGTON – Officials with the Catholic Campaign for Human Development refuted a report that 55 agencies funded by the U.S. bishops’ anti-poverty program in 2010-11 were in conflict with church teaching.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Recent Vatican communications controversies have shown that in the Internet age the church cannot avoid debate and in fact must be prepared to explain its teachings more convincingly through new media, the Vatican’s spokesman said.Read More
Inclusionary housing. Destruction of the environment. Elections in Kenya. The death penalty. No matter what the issue, whenever a voice is needed to speak out for justice and peace, it’s there – thanks to the Murphy Initiative for Peace and Justice.Read More
The Archdiocese of Baltimore has developed a policy to provide the proper canonical oversight for the sale or lease of former or current Catholic school buildings so that usage does not hinder the growth of other Catholic schools.Read More
Del. Eric Bromwell of Baltimore County has withdrawn a bill that Catholic leaders feared would have devastated parishes, schools and ministries had it become law.Read More
Father Eugene Nickol has resigned as pastor of Our Lady of the Fields in Millersville, according to a statement from the Archdiocese of Baltimore.Read More
I felt compelled to respond to a letter-writer’s claim (CR, May 14) that “it seems like for Catholics, the only lives that matter are the ones of the unborn babies.” The writer cited President Bush’s support for capital punishment and for “starting the war in Iraq.”Read More