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January 19, 2012

Co-workers say Bishop Malooly managed with ‘even temperament’

Every now and then, Bishop W. Francis Malooly surprised callers to his Catholic Center office by picking up the phone himself. Expecting to hear the voice of Katherine Williams, his longtime administrative assistant, the callers were bewildered at hearing the bishop greet them with a cheery “bishop’s office.”
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January 19, 2012

Ukrainian cardinal defends decision to support president

KIEV, Ukraine – The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church has defended his decision to support President Viktor Yushchenko’s recent dismissal of parliament, which some argue has deepened a constitutional crisis. “Our declaration didn’t back any party – it merely recalled that the church has not forgotten people, nor has God,” said Cardinal Lubomyr Husar...
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January 19, 2012

Baltimore Episcopal parish votes to enter Catholic faith

Mount Calvary Church, a small Episcopal parish in Baltimore, voted Oct. 24 to leave the Episcopal community and become an Anglican-use parish within the Roman Catholic Church. The 168-year-old church became the first Episcopal parish in Maryland to vote to sever ties with the Episcopal Church.
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January 19, 2012

Don’t Iraq casualties count too?

Regarding the letter from James M. Althoff (CR, Aug. 14) in which he states that the lives lost in Iraq are “volunteer soldiers encircled in body armor, armed to the teeth and often in the cocoon of a Humvee,” I would ask him about the 100,000 plus Iraqi casualties, many, if not most of whom...
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January 19, 2012

Making sense out of tragedy

Anyone who has faced trauma in his or her life can speak quite clearly about all of those feelings, because it is the living reality of any traumatic event. I would imagine that for many in Blacksburg, Va., and on the campus of Virginia Tech, many people have experienced if not all at least one...
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January 19, 2012

Dueling political strategists share rostrum at annual Al Smith dinner

NEW YORK – Whoever commands the next congressional majority after the upcoming midterm election will discover that fortune favors those who put service and duty above party and self, according to Republican political consultant Mary Matalin.
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January 19, 2012

Western Maryland honors Bishop Malooly

HAGERSTOWN – When Pope John Paul II named Bishop W. Francis Malooly an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the new bishop immediately got in his white Honda Accord and made a whirlwind tour of some of the parishes of his assigned vicariate in the western part of the state. For the next seven...
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January 19, 2012

Parish work helped priest recognize calling

Jumping into parish life at Ss. Philip and James in Baltimore helped convince Father Joseph Cosgrove he might be called to the priesthood. Whether it was bringing communion to the sick and shut-ins, serving on the pastoral council, reading the scriptures as a lector or reaching out to the poor through the St. Vincent de...
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January 19, 2012

Anglican bishop announces he will resign, join Catholic ordinariate

LONDON – The bishop who leads the largest Anglo-Catholic group in the Church of England said he plans to resign by the end of the year and join a personal ordinariate when it is established in England and Wales.
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January 19, 2012

Catholic alumna participated in NASA’s Teacher in Space program

Kathleen Beres recalls all too well holding her face on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986, as the spaceship Challenger exploded 18 miles up in the cold blue sky, spitting unwanted fireworks above a crowd witnessing the tragedy.
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January 19, 2012

Sister Alvera Stead, O.S.F.

A funeral Mass for Sister Alvera Stead, O.S.F., was offered April 18 at Assisi House, Pa. Sister Alvera died April 14. She was 96.
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January 19, 2012

Synod hears repeated calls for common Christian Easter date

VATICAN CITY – At a synod concerned primarily about peace and the continued presence of Christians in the Holy Land, one of the suggestions made repeatedly was that Catholics, Protestants, Anglicans and Orthodox finally celebrate Easter together each year.
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