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January 19, 2012

Catholic colleges hit hard by additional state cuts to Sellinger Program

Dr. Thomas H. Powell, president of Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, dreaded a Thanksgiving week review of his institution’s fiscal year 2010 operating budget.
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January 19, 2012

News of 2008 papal visit highlights bishops’ meeting

BALTIMORE – The announcement of dates and locations for Pope Benedict XVI’s U.S. visit next year highlighted the first day of the U.S. bishops’ fall general meeting in Baltimore. The April 15-20 trip will include visits to New York and Washington and an address at the United Nations.
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January 19, 2012

Pope urges support for deaf, including access to health care

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI lamented the serious lack of public programs and measures to address the needs of deaf people and a lack of even basic health care, which often can prevent hearing impairment.
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January 19, 2012

Doctrinal official says people are equal in dialogue

VATICAN CITY – When Catholics engage in interreligious dialogue, they must know that equality exists among the participants, not the religions they represent, said Archbishop Angelo Amato, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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January 19, 2012

Knights of Peter Claver – 100 years of service

On Nov. 7, the world’s oldest and largest historically African American Catholic lay organization celebrated 100 years of service to God and his people. The Knights of Peter Claver was founded Nov. 7, 1909 in Mobile, Ala., by four Josephite priests and three lay men. During this time in U.S. history, people of African descent...
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January 19, 2012

Priest recalls peaceful midnight Mass in a war zone

For the past 51 years as a priest, Father John Bauer, C.Ss.R., has looked forward to celebrating Midnight Mass on Christmas, and the most peaceful one for this Highlandtown native was in the middle of a war zone.
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January 19, 2012

Reports say Pope John Paul closer to being declared venerable

VATICAN CITY – The cardinal- and bishop-members of the Congregation for Saints' Causes voted unanimously Nov. 16 to recommend that Pope Benedict XVI formally recognize that Pope John Paul II heroically lived the Christian virtues, Italian newspapers reported.
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January 19, 2012

Kerry finds his voice on religion

WASHINGTON – On the first day of November 2007, U.S. Sen. John Kerry finally gave a roomful of religion reporters the speech they waited to hear from him during the 2004 presidential campaign, when he was the Democratic nominee.
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January 19, 2012

New Jersey Catholic leaders express hopes, concerns about Christie

METUCHEN, N.J. – Catholic leaders in New Jersey are cautiously optimistic that Gov.-elect Chris Christie will keep several campaign promises, including opposing same-sex marriage legislation and supporting school choice for needy children.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop Edwin O’Brien defends traditional marriage

Asserting that traditional marriage is radically threatened by some courts and legislatures intent on legalizing same-sex marriage, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien called the defense of marriage “an urgent necessity to ensure the flourishing of persons, the well-being of children and the common good of society.”
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January 19, 2012

Sixteen years of quiet pro-life advocacy comes to fruition for Stupak

WASHINGTON – After 16 years in Congress struggling with his party and even sometimes with his church over his status as a pro-life, Catholic Democrat, Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan was able to put his convictions to powerful effect in the passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act.
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January 19, 2012

Kidney recipients, now friends, train for transplant games

Mike Gahagan jokes that one of his kidneys is Irish and the other Polish. Actually, the kidneys aren’t his. The Irish organ belongs to his brother and the Polish one came from his wife.
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