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January 19, 2012

Conversion: Ancient prison went from pagan to sacred Christian site

VATICAN CITY – Tradition holds that St. Peter was jailed in Rome’s maximum security Mamertine Prison before he was crucified upside down and buried on the hill where St. Peter’s Basilica was later built.
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January 19, 2012

More friends could equal better health

Stay in touch with your friends, not just because you like them but because having them correlates with better health.
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January 19, 2012

Papal charity donates $250,000 for Haitian school reconstruction

VATICAN CITY – A papal charity donated $250,000 for the reconstruction of a school in Haiti and as a sign of Pope Benedict XVI’s concern for the earthquake-devastated population.
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January 19, 2012

Catholics mark Respect Life Sunday Oct. 7

Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore will take a very public stand in support of the sanctity of life Oct. 7, Respect Life Sunday, when they gather for prayer in churches and along Maryland roadsides.
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January 19, 2012

Rome Diocese calls for active gay priests to go, stop sullying church

ROME – In the wake of an undercover video and news report documenting priests in Rome engaged in homosexual acts, the Rome Diocese has called for priests engaged in “unworthy” behavior to leave the priesthood and stop sullying the reputation of the vast majority of honorable ministers.
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January 19, 2012

Vatican dismisses English woman’s Marian claims

LONDON – The Vatican has dismissed the claims of a woman in England who says Mary has visited her outside her home for more than 20 years. Ruling that her claims are “highly questionable,” the Vatican also has refused to approve the statutes of the community she founded.
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January 19, 2012

Violent video games and their effects on players a topic of debate

WASHINGTON – With a case involving violent video gaming set to get a hearing at the U.S. Supreme Court in the fall, psychologists and a priest-anthropologist talked to Catholic News Service about whether youths’ exposure to violent games should be cause for concern.
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January 19, 2012

Beans & Bread to celebrate 30 years

When amateur actor and former Benedictine priest Benet Hanlon began working in a Fells Point theater in the late 1970s, he noticed a number of homeless men along the then-scrappy waterfront streets, got to know several of them and eventually rented a small row house on Aliceanna Street in 1977 in an effort to feed...
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January 19, 2012

Federal appeals court strikes down FCC’s indecency rule

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court struck down the Federal Communication Commission’s indecency policy in a July 12 ruling that raised the ire of family-friendly television advocates around the country.
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January 19, 2012

Pope praises late Vietnamese cardinal

VATICAN CITY – As church officials prepared to open the sainthood cause for Cardinal Francois Nguyen Van Thuan, Pope Benedict XVI praised the late Vietnamese cardinal as a “singular prophet of Christian hope.”
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January 19, 2012

Catholic faith a source of strength for World Cup soccer player from Maryland

WASHINGTON – In the fall of 1995, a thin, fast soccer player named Oguchi Onyewu, wearing No. 5 on his red- and black-striped jersey, helped lead St. Andrew Apostle Parish in Silver Spring, Md., to a 4-1 win in the Catholic Youth Organization’s varsity Mid-Atlantic Championship in Washington.
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January 19, 2012

Eight Catholic schools could become charter schools

WASHINGTON – Because of growing deficits and declining enrollments faced by its center-city Catholic schools, the Archdiocese of Washington announced a proposal Sept. 7 to reconfigure a consortium made up of the 12 schools. According to the proposal, four of the 12 Catholic schools currently in the Center City Consortium would make up a new...
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