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January 19, 2012

Black America: gaining ground, losing traction

WASHINGTON – Three themes run through black America, according to the Rev. Robert Franklin: celebration of heroic individual and collective achievement; closure of persistent racial gaps in such areas as education and health; and anxiety about losing ground and “mobilizing to reverse negative trend lines.” Rev. Franklin, author of the new book “Crisis in the...
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January 19, 2012

New principal appointed for St. Casimir School

After six years as principal of the now-closed St. William of York School in Baltimore, Noreen Heffner is taking on a new role as principal of St. Casimir School in Canton.
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January 19, 2012

San Diego Diocese files for bankruptcy

SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Diocese has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to handle more than 140 clergy sexual abuse claims equitably. It is the fifth and largest U.S. diocese to do so since 2004. San Diego Bishop Robert H. Brom announced the decision Feb. 27, the day before the first abuse lawsuit...
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January 19, 2012

Magliano column inaccurate, misleading

Tony Magliano’s column (CR, Aug. 5) may have been well intended, but it is also misleading, pacifist propaganda. I am not an advocate of nuclear warfare, nor would I suspect is Jesus or any religious leader.
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January 19, 2012

The paradox of world’s most Catholic continent

LIMA, Peru – When church leaders from throughout Latin America gather in Brazil in May for the fifth general conference of the Latin American bishops’ council, they will be grappling with the contradictions of life on the world’s most Catholic continent. While more than 450 million of the region’s 551 million people are considered Catholic,...
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January 19, 2012

Combier-Donovan to head Office of Worship

Paulist Father John E. Hurley, executive director of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Department of Evangelization, announced the appointment of Catherine Combier-Donovan as the new director of the Office for Worship.
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January 19, 2012

Pope supports Polish archbishop who resigned

OXFORD, England – Pope Benedict XVI expressed support for an archbishop who resigned because of links to communist-era secret police. “I would like, above all, to offer words of encouragement, inviting you to stride forward with confidence and peace in your heart,” Pope Benedict said in a letter to former Warsaw Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus. “I...
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January 19, 2012

Catholic leaders decry California judge’s decision on same-sex marriage

WASHINGTON – Saying that marriage between a man and a woman “is the bedrock of any society,” Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, denounced the Aug. 4 decision of a federal judge to overturn a California voter-backed initiative that essentially banned same-sex marriage.
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January 19, 2012

Basketball Round-Up

It is hoop-heaven this coming week as the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association will wrap-up their boys’ basketball tourney Feb. 23 with the A Conference tipping off at 7 p.m. at Gilman School, Baltimore, while the B and C Conference finals will begin at 6:30 p.m. at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Log on to the...
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop Wuerl urges Knights to be ‘champions of new evangelization’

WASHINGTON – Knights of Columbus are called to evangelize, to be charitable and to serve as instruments of God’s love, Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl said Aug. 3 at a Mass opening the Catholic fraternal organization’s 128th annual supreme convention.
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January 19, 2012

Texan artist directs students in painting mural

In a wooden frame on a curved brick wall in the lobby of Our Lady of Victory School, Arbutus, a large mural of the community painted by method of pointillism is now visible when entering the building. Pointillism is the art of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that images...
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January 19, 2012

Venture aims to strengthen relationship with Catholic schools, colleges

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Rochester-based Catholic Education Foundation, an organization that provides scholarships nationwide to Catholic high school students, has announced a new effort to expand and strengthen the relationships that Catholic elementary and secondary schools have with Catholic colleges.
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