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January 19, 2012

U.S. urged to stop Marianas trafficking

WASHINGTON – A Filipina forced into the sex trade and raped hours after her arrival in the Northern Mariana Islands appealed to U.S. senators to change immigration and labor laws in the commonwealth. “I know there are other women out in the (Mariana Islands) community like me,” Kayleen Entena said in her Feb. 8 testimony...
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January 19, 2012

Pope meets with schoolchildren, offers a lesson on sainthood

LONDON – In a rousing encounter with some 4,000 schoolchildren, Pope Benedict XVI asked them to make friendship with God the center of their lives.
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January 19, 2012

Electronic giving makes donating to church easy

More parishes throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore are turning to a relatively new way of encouraging parishioners to donate to their church: electronic giving. Instead of using weekly envelopes, parishioners agree to have a set amount of money transferred automatically from their checking or savings account to their parish. Some donors choose to have their...
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January 19, 2012

African bishops: Continent has not shared success of poverty reduction

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Although average incomes in Africa have risen, the continent has not shared in the global success in reducing poverty, African bishops said before a visit to Europe to share their concerns over efforts to reduce extreme poverty worldwide.
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January 19, 2012

Capital Campaign helps restore historic windows

For almost 50 years the historic windows that were once displayed in the chapel at St. Mary’s Industrial School, Baltimore, have been sitting in storage at Our Lady of Victory, Arbutus. The parishioners and Father Timothy Klunk, pastor, are now in their second year of a capital campaign to restore, preserve and install the priceless...
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January 19, 2012

In former slave dungeon, U.S. bishop finds sadness, reconciliation

CAPE COAST, Ghana – It’s dark, damp and warm in the stone dungeon of the Cape Coast Castle Museum.
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January 19, 2012

Priest accused of attempted murder is captured

LAS VEGAS, Nev. – A Las Vegas priest accused of attempted murder and sexual assault on a parish employee was captured near Phoenix Feb. 1 after a six-day manhunt across several states. Father George Chaanine, 52, has been charged with attempted murder with a deadly weapon, sexual assault, kidnapping and other charges in connection with...
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January 19, 2012

Focus on the good, share the gifts of the spirit

So, happy New Year and Thanksgiving! What? This is September. Did the heat this summer finally fry my brain? (I might be the last to notice!)
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January 19, 2012

Date night helps couples keep spark alive

Erica and Sean Kerchner find it hard to spend quality time together at the moment. Mr. Kerchner has been training with the U.S. Navy in Norfolk, Va., for four months while his wife of three years stays with her parents in Silver Spring. Mrs. Kerchner said when her husband visits on the weekends, it is...
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January 19, 2012

California bishops offer parents guidelines to opt out of public school programs

SAN FRANCISCO – The California Catholic bishops’ conference is alerting parents and guardians of public school children that they have the right to “opt out” of many influences and classes that contradict their family’s values – from instruction in how to perform sexual acts to the ins and outs of witchcraft and the conjuring of...
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January 19, 2012

Congress starting from scratch on making new policy

WASHINGTON – The previous Congress never got to vote on a full-scale rewrite of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Some in the Republican-run House had hoped for a vote during the post-election lame-duck session, but the shift of power to the Democrats scuttled that possibility. Now, with Democrats in charge, what could a new telecommunications bill...
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January 19, 2012

Bishop Hubbard, Christian leaders welcome new Middle East peace talks

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace joined 27 other Christian leaders in welcoming the renewal of direct peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders brokered by the United States.
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