VATICAN CITY – Praying with a group of students preparing for ministry in the church, the Vatican’s chief prosecutor of clerical sex abuse cases said there is a special place in hell for priests who abuse children.Read More
VATICAN CITY – After a three-day trip to Austria in early September, Pope Benedict XVI is putting away his traveling shoes and settling in for a long fall and winter at the Vatican. The next foreign trip fixed firmly on the pope’s calendar is mid-July of 2008, when he plans to fly to Australia for...Read More
The family of Yeardley Love, who died May 3 at the University of Virginia, has established a memorial fund at Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson.Read More
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – Oscar-winning actress Jane Wyman, once married to future president Ronald Reagan, joined the Catholic Church as an adult and became a benefactor to several Catholic causes. Ms. Wyman died Sept. 10 at her home in Rancho Mirage. The cause of death was not disclosed. While her age was placed at 90,...Read More
Karen Hanrahan has been named the new president of Seton Keough High School in Baltimore. Hanrahan formerly worked in institutional advancement and development at St. Mary Academy-Bay View, a pre-K through grade 12 academy for young women in Rhode Island. She has a bachelor’s degree from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, and a master of...Read More
VATICAN CITY – When Pope Benedict XVI turns on the tap in his Vatican apartment, it’s a reminder that potable water is a precious resource in today’s world. The 109-acre Vatican City does not have its own water source, and it relies on Italy to furnish it with the estimated 5 million cubic meters of...Read More
WASHINGTON – As the presidents of the United States and Mexico declared their intentions to work together on immigration-related problems and other issues, the bishops who head the migration committees of the two nations called on them to critically examine their immigration policies “and their adverse impact on human beings.”Read More
A funeral Mass for Father Richard Timothy Sadlier, S.S.J., was celebrated Sept. 8 in Rhode Island and a memorial Mass was celebrated Sept. 6 at St. Joseph Manor in Baltimore.Read More
As a warm, spring sun shined upon their faces May 14, Bill and Maria McCarthy wondered why they were being summoned by Sister of Notre Dame de Namur Shawn Marie McGuire, the headmistress of Maryvale Preparatory School in Brooklandville.Read More
Andy Witte, the head boys cross country and boys and girls track and field coach at Archbishop Spalding High School recently traveled to Africa to cross yet another marathon off his list of “things to do.”Read More
VATICAN CITY – Less than a week after a coadjutor archbishop was installed to assist him, 57-year-old Archbishop Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet of Hanoi resigned his post amid rumors that the Vietnamese government had told the Vatican the archbishop must go.Read More
In honor of their upcoming 200th anniversary in 2008, Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, opened their vault to remove the school’s historic chalices to use at the founder’s Mass Aug. 24 and for further Masses celebrating the anniversary.Read More