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January 19, 2012

Boonsboro children dress up for saintly parade

The saints came marching into Boonsboro Oct. 29 when 75 children – some wearing colorful flowing robes, angel wings or halos – paraded around town dressed as their favorite saints.
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January 19, 2012

At Soweto parish, first lady urges young people to lead Africa’s future

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – First lady Michelle Obama urged a crowd of more than 2,000 that included hundreds of young women to help shape Africa’s future by combating corruption, building strong democratic institutions and working to improve the lives of the poor and sick in a speech at Regina Mundi Church in Soweto.
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January 19, 2012

Dangers of premature reconciliation

Given the unique status of the Holocaust as an icon of evil in a morally confused world, Holocaust-denial triggers revulsions similar to those triggered by blasphemy in the Middle Ages: the Holocaust-denier must be shunned, for everyone else’s moral health. Thus it was completely understandable that, when Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications of four...
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January 19, 2012

Hispanic rally welcomes youth

The Hispanic Young Adult Council organized a rally for Hispanic youth, “Explosion Juvenil” (Young Explosion), on Oct. 20 at the Wilde Lake Interfaith Center, Columbia.
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January 19, 2012

Parishioners says farewell to “face of St. Ann”

The savior of St. Ann parish in Baltimore City is moving on, but she will not be forgotten anytime soon.
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January 19, 2012

Bishop’s remarks on Holocaust strain US Jewish-Catholic relations

WASHINGTON – Strained Jewish-Catholic relations are being felt beyond the Vatican and Israel as U.S. rabbis express their displeasure with Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to lift the excommunication of a traditionalist bishop who has minimized the severity and extent of the Holocaust.
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January 19, 2012

Cardinal Keeler – A Very Wise Man

Cardinal Keeler’s passion for the church, his cherubic countenance, his joyfulness (in Rome, he once pulled an Oriole cap from under his cassock and gave it to a smiling pope), his many unpublicized acts of kindness to the most vulnerable individuals in the community, his un-ersatz humility, his close friendship with Mother Teresa, his amazing...
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January 19, 2012

Papal mass in Berlin may move to Nazi-built stadium, organizer says

VATICAN CITY – So many people want to see Pope Benedict XVI celebrate Mass in Berlin in September that organizers are considering holding the event in an Olympic stadium built under Adolf Hitler, the papal trip planner said.
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January 19, 2012

Clergy stances on life issues need clarification

I would like the church to respond to the excellent letters (Jan. 29, CR) from Kaitlin Moran and Mike Brady. I am just as confused as they are regrading the standing of the Catholic Church on the issues of abortion, embryonic stem cell research, gay marriages and the Freedon of Choice Act, and what we...
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January 19, 2012

Foundation says its prolife ads having effect

WASHINGTON – Unless you’re watching daytime talk shows or soap operas, late-night or late-late-night television or some of the most basic cable channels, you might not have seen commercials with a pro-life message sponsored by the Vitae Caring Foundation.
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January 19, 2012

Government forces kill two church workers in Sudanese border state

WASHINGTON – Two church workers were murdered by government forces in Sudan’s South Kordofan state in what one church adviser called a campaign of “ethnic cleansing.”
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January 19, 2012

MCC raises grave concerns about Gov. O’Malley’s budget

A day after Gov. Martin J. O’Malley released his Jan. 20 budget in Annapolis, leaders of the Maryland Catholic Conference expressed grave concerns about how it could hurt the poor, children in nonpublic schools and the unborn.
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