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January 19, 2012

One job in high demand in troubled times: Counseling the unemployed

WASHINGTON – As the March unemployment numbers showed another increase in the percentage of jobless people, one profession is, perversely, in greater demand: those who can provide counseling services to people whose emotional distress has outpaced their financial distress.
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January 19, 2012

Survey shows many Catholics pray regularly but fewer active in parish

WASHINGTON – Less than a third of U.S. Catholics participate regularly in selected pastoral or community activities at their churches, though nearly 80 percent say they pray at least weekly, according to the latest report from the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
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January 19, 2012

Vatican announces indulgences for World Youth Day

VATICAN CITY - To help encourage prayers for a spiritually fruitful World Youth Day in Madrid, the Vatican announced Aug. 11 that Pope Benedict XVI had authorized a special indulgence for anyone who, “with a contrite spirit,” raises a “prayer to God, the Holy Spirit, so that young people are drawn to charity and given...
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January 19, 2012

‘Recovery Express’ appeals to Congress for help on home foreclosures

WASHINGTON – Come March 26 Jaime Silahua and his family are facing life on the streets. His bank, it turns out, is foreclosing on his home in Antioch, Calif.
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January 19, 2012

Novices make promises at St. Veronica

Three Nigerian men seeking the priesthood made their First Temporary Profession June 22 at St. Veronica, Cherry Hill. Two of the men, George Bede Ajuruchi, N.S.S.J., and Leo Udeagu, N.S.S.J., served at St. Veronica during the past year under pastor Father Augustine Inwang, M.S.P.
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January 19, 2012

Updated: Tighter regulations proposed for state abortion clinics

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) has published draft regulations that would more tightly regulate the state’s surgical abortion clinics. The regulations would require clinics to follow regulations similar to the ones already governing other outpatient ambulatory surgical centers.
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January 19, 2012

Abortion, death penalty wins slow in coming on state-by-state basis

WASHINGTON – If Roe v. Wade – the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal nationwide at virtually any point in a woman’s pregnancy – were overturned, the matter would most likely be sent back to the 50 states and require campaigns to restrict or outlaw abortion to be waged on a state-by-state basis.
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January 19, 2012

Marian images need artistic rehabilitation, says Vatican newspaper

VATICAN CITY – The loving, tender images of Mary breast-feeding the baby Jesus need an artistic and spiritual rehabilitation, said the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.
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January 19, 2012

MCC touts new Maryland abortion draft regulations

The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) has published draft regulations for sites performing surgical abortions that the Maryland Catholic Conference believes “will go a long way to protect the health and safety of women undergoing surgical abortions in Maryland.”
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January 19, 2012

The “U” in Scouts

There it is, in the middle of the word Scouts, the letter “u.” But the real “u” in Scouts is “you.” We are blessed that the vast majority of Scouting units (Cub Scout packs, Boy Scout troops, Venturing crews, Explorer posts and Varsity Scout teams) not only survive, but thrive for many years. Some are...
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January 19, 2012

Boy Scouts remembered for helping others, loving life

OMAHA, Neb. – Amid a crowd of friends, family, Boy Scouts and Boy Scout leaders, Bryan and Arnell Petrzilka leaned over and kissed their 13-year-old son, Ben, whose body lay in a casket at Mary Our Queen Church in Omaha.
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January 19, 2012

Cardinal criticizes contraceptive mandate, calls exemption too narrow

WASHINGTON - The Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed “religious exemption” to the requirement that new or significantly altered health insurance plans cover contraceptives and sterilization for women is “so narrow as to exclude most Catholic social service agencies and health care providers,” according to the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life...
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