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January 19, 2012

Excess TV bad for Americans individually and collectively

WASHINGTON – Every so often, you may have an opinion about some issue. You know in your heart that it’s so, but you rarely have the material to back up your belief – or suspicion, as the case may be.
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January 19, 2012

Bishops’ annual Labor Day statement focuses on health reform debate

WASHINGTON – It is possible to bring Catholic values to the ongoing debate over health care reform just as it was done earlier this year in forging a four-way agreement on the potential unionization of workers at Catholic hospitals, said Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y.
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January 19, 2012

Interreligious dialogue called critical to solving ‘family problems’

NEW YORK – Problems among Christians, Muslims and Jews are “family problems,” because the three traditions, sharing an ancestor in Abraham, have much more in common than what divides them, said the Italian founder of a monastery community in the Syrian desert.
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January 19, 2012

Three U.S. bishops revisit controversy over Obama honor at Notre Dame

WASHINGTON – In two national Catholic publications, two U.S. archbishops and a bishop are revisiting the controversy over the honorary degree conferred on President Barack Obama by the University of Notre Dame.
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January 19, 2012

Few buses transport students to Catholic schools, costs and geographic spread cited

As a young girl in the late 1960s, Nancy Perlman boarded a school bus near her Rodgers Forge home five mornings a week that delivered her safely to nearby St. Pius X School. It was a luxury for which her parents happily paid, in addition to the annual tuition for the Catholic education the now...
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January 19, 2012

New U.S. ambassador to Vatican arrives in Rome

ROME - The new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, Miguel Diaz, arrived in Rome and said he was eager to help expand the “special relationship” between the United States and the Holy See.
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January 19, 2012

Father Swope ready for new role

As the first president of the new Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Baltimore, Father John W. Swope, S.J. will be heavily involved in reaching out to the wider community.
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January 19, 2012

New U.S. ambassador to Vatican sworn in at State Department ceremony

WASHINGTON – With a roomful of theologians, college professors and presidents, political activists, leaders of various church organizations, and family and longtime friends looking on, Catholic theologian Miguel Diaz was sworn in as ambassador to the Vatican Aug. 21.
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January 19, 2012

Bishop Madden blesses altar at Sacred Heart of Jesus

When Bishop Denis J. Madden consecrated the white marble altar in the main church of Sacred Heart of Jesus July 21, the urban vicar became the second bishop to bless the ornate marble slab within the past 51 years.
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January 19, 2012

St. Agnes expansion project helps community

As construction workers recently completed the steel skeleton for a 120-bed patient tower at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, they helped secure the future of a Southwest Baltimore institution. But the project is also have a big impact on the present.
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January 19, 2012

Lack of mental health care in New Orleans leaves children at risk

WASHINGTON – Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast region, the city of New Orleans is struggling to fill gaps in its mental health care system that could potentially leave thousands of children vulnerable to depression, teenage suicide and pregnancy.
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January 19, 2012

Kansas bishops decry end of state program for pregnant women in need

TOPEKA, Kan. – The Catholic bishops of Kansas told Gov. Mark Parkinson that his administration’s decision to end state funding in 2010 for a program that helps women facing crisis pregnancies “will have grave repercussions for some of the most vulnerable among us.”
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