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January 19, 2012

Mother Lange banquet honors black Catholics

It was an exciting and joyous evening to remember at the 14th Mother Mary Lange, O.S.P. Awards Banquet held March 19 at Martin’s West in Baltimore County as well wishers including Oblate Sisters of Providence, pastors, various parishes, families and friends gathered to celebrate and honor Mother Lange, and recognize the 48 faith-filled African-American Catholics...
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop sues to overturn pregnancy center law

The Archdiocese of Baltimore is suing Baltimore City to overturn a controversial new law that requires the city’s pro-life pregnancy centers to post signs saying they do not provide abortion or birth-control.
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January 19, 2012

Water is powerful symbol in faith life

As a young mother was entering church with her little boy, he asked: “Why is Holy Water poison?”
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January 19, 2012

Strong messages call Catholic Men’s Fellowship of Maryland participants

Some came to hear the speakers, others to see old friends. Still others came seeking spiritual growth and renewal. None left disappointed.
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January 19, 2012

Invest capital in businesses, not get-rich-quick schemes, says pope

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI said capital investments should be dedicated to offering credit to small and medium-sized businesses rather than funneled into get-rich-quick schemes in the financial markets.
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January 19, 2012

Tensions mount between Catholic Church, liberal Mexico City government

MEXICO CITY – Mayor Marcelo Ebrard was witness to four same-sex marriages March 11 in Mexico City’s old government building, the first such unions in the country and the first ones under new laws approved in the Mexican capital.
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January 19, 2012

Pain and healing

In reflecting on the consolidation of schools announced last week and the factors that led to this painful but necessary step, I realized that this decision is not unlike surgery. Both are painful but necessary for the body (this local Church and its historic school system) to heal. And, like the healing period that ensues,...
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January 19, 2012

Don’t single out Gibbons

Closing 12 elementary schools is fully understandable and will move to strengthen the remaining schools (CR, March 4). Closing one high school does not seem consistent with the overall plan.
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January 19, 2012

Ralph McInerny and the tragedy of Notre Dame

In late February, Professor Marjorie Garber of Harvard came to the University of Notre Dame as the Provost’s Distinguished Lecturer for 2009-2010. She spoke to a class on “Breaking the Code: Transvestism and Gay Identity,” the subject of chapter six of her book, “Vested Interests: Transvestism and Cultural Anxiety.”
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January 19, 2012

Church coordinates aid, offers condolences to quake victims’ families

LIMA, Peru – As Chile’s Catholic Church coordinated aid to victims of the massive earthquake that struck the country’s central coast on Feb. 27, church leaders expressed their condolences to families of the more than 700 people killed.
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January 19, 2012

Bishops speak out against Gansler’s same-sex opinion

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien was joined by Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl and Wilmington Bishop W. Francis Malooly in voicing “strong exception” to Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler’s Feb. 24 written opinion that the state may recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.
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January 19, 2012

Haig, a Catholic who served as U.S. secretary of state, dies at age 85

Alexander M. Haig Jr., former U.S. secretary of state and retired four-star general who served as a top adviser to three presidents, died Feb. 20 of complications from an infection. He was 85.
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