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January 19, 2012

Adopted girls give back

CATONSVILLE – When Judy Wall was hoping to adopt a child overseas with her husband, Michael, she often dreamed about a little girl wearing yellow and white. Soon after the parishioners of St. Mark in Catonsville received word that a baby had been located in Vietnam, the adoption agency showed them the child’s photograph. Sure...
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January 19, 2012

Centuries-old debate still rages over religion’s role in public life

WASHINGTON – Although today’s often vitriolic rhetoric about the role of religion in public life seems like a modern-day affliction, Americans have been debating how to balance tensions between faith and politics for more than 230 years.
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January 19, 2012

Bishops given ‘sober’ report on religious orders, with signs of hope

Religious orders may be shrinking in size and their members aging fast, but a study of their newest members offers signs for hope, Holy Cross Brother Paul Bednarczyk, executive director of the National Religious Vocations Conference, said in a Nov. 18 report to the U.S. bishops on a study released this summer.
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January 19, 2012

Vocations, vocations, vocations!

In his commentary on the Scriptures for the fifth Sunday of Easter, Father Daniel Harrington, S.J., offers the following: “Philip’s request to Jesus (‘Show us the Father and that will be enough for us’) is the occasion for Jesus to express the central and most profound insight in all of John’s Gospel: ‘Whoever has seen...
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January 19, 2012

Follow practical tips for preventing spread of H1N1

There’s a parable told of an angel walking into a city just as the plague was walking out of the city. The angel said to the plague: “You should be ashamed of yourself for killing all those people!” The plague replied: “I only killed a few. Fear killed the rest.”
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January 19, 2012

Myanmar cyclone victims try to survive amid devastating losses

LEIEINTAN, Myanmar – Pascal Than Hlaing is just one of many who are grieving in Leieintan, a village where only one house is left standing and the Baptist and Catholic churches had their roofs torn open.
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January 19, 2012

Cathedral of Mary Our Queen celebrates 50 years

Fifty years to the day that Archbishop Francis P. Keough dedicated the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, friends and parishioners of the Homeland landmark gathered Nov. 15 to celebrate its golden jubilee.
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January 19, 2012

Vietnam POW bracelet worn 40 years after war

Most people don’t recognize the plain, nickel-plated bracelet that circles the right wrist of Sister Stacy Gunnip, S.S.N.D. They think it’s an ID bracelet.
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January 19, 2012

Catholic Campaign for Human Development collection is Nov. 21 and 22

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien is asking Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore to help support the poor and vulnerable by donating to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).
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January 19, 2012

Doctor: Drinking water important for good health

Fitness gurus have said it so many times and with such certainty that it almost seems like a given: drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day for good health.
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January 19, 2012

Gabriel Network to add its first maternity home in the city

Pregnant women in Baltimore who need support in bringing their babies to term will find help next year when the Gabriel Network opens a new maternity home in West Baltimore.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop asks governor to veto bills

Concerned that two bills passed by the Maryland General Assembly would “significantly erode” the definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien is urging Gov. Martin J. O’Malley to veto Senate Bills 566 and 597.
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