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January 19, 2012

Nativity museum reopens in Bethlehem in time for Christmas celebration

BETHLEHEM, West Bank – Traditional ceramic and wood Nativity scenes from Spain share center stage along with miniature wooden box reproductions from Mexico, an almond-eyed baby Jesus from Thailand and a hanbok-clad Holy Family from Korea at the newly reopened International Nativity Museum.
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January 19, 2012

Integrating a Southern Catholic high school

As early as 1917, the Oblate Sisters of Providence, at the request of Bishop William T. Russell, began missionary work among the black Catholics in the unique city of Charleston, S.C. Previously, the Sisters of Charity of Charleston taught the black children. However, in the mid 1830s, Bishop John England, after attending the First Provincial...
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January 19, 2012

World now has greater number of Muslims than Catholics

VATICAN CITY – A Vatican official said that, for the first time, the world’s Muslim population is greater than the number of Catholics.
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January 19, 2012

Claims of apparitions of Mary met with skepticism, book shows

VATICAN CITY – A newly expanded compendium of visions of the Virgin Mary shows how the very idea of such apparitions has been met with skepticism and preoccupation within the church, from early Christian times to the present.
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January 19, 2012

Sudanese refugee counts blessings

Renounce your Catholic faith, his boss said, and convert to Muslim. James Okeny refused, and lost his job as a result.
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January 19, 2012

Catholics work to head off conflicts over Polish migrants

WARSAW, Poland – Catholic Church leaders have been working to head off a possible conflict about pastoral jurisdiction over the estimated 1.5 million Polish migrants in the United Kingdom.
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January 19, 2012

Special needs student from Villa Maria dies after accident

A special needs student from Villa Maria School in Timonium died Dec. 10 from injuries sustained Dec. 8 after he became involved in an altercation and jumped from a moving bus. The bus, operated by a company contracted by Baltimore City Schools, was transporting the boy from his Catholic Charities-run school to his home.
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January 19, 2012

Nobel winners talk to 3,000 youths about peacemaking in violent world

LOS ANGELES – PeaceJam Foundation likes to prove that young adults do care about what older people think, particularly adult activists who have taken great risks to change oppressive systems.
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January 19, 2012

Dr. Ayd, pioneer in psychopharmacology, dies at 87

A funeral Mass for Dr. Frank J. Ayd Jr., a distinguished psychiatrist and world leader in medicine who was dedicated to the Catholic Church, was offered March 24 at St. John the Evangelist, Hydes.
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January 19, 2012

Caritas official wants Zambia to arrest Sudanese president

LUSAKA, Zambia – Zambia must hand over Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court when he visits Lusaka Dec. 15, Caritas Zambia executive director Samuel Mulafulafu said.
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January 19, 2012

Eating right is easy as ABC at schools

Friday is pizza day in the cafeteria at St. John Regional School in Frederick, where for years students loved the taste of the school-made pie.
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January 19, 2012

Giving peace a chance: Catholic activists still going strong

WASHINGTON – In the pouring rain March 19, Franciscan Sister Marie Lucey addressed several dozen protesters at a rally near the White House, pleading for an end to U.S. involvement in the Iraq War.
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