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January 19, 2012

Liturgical reform was about changing people’s lives, pope says

VATICAN CITY – The Second Vatican Council’s renewal of the liturgy wasn’t so much about changing texts or gestures as it was about changing Catholics’ attitude toward the Mass and helping the liturgy change their lives, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop, pastors target violence in city

From the archbishop to parish priests to people in the pews – and especially, the people in the neighborhoods – Ronald Jackson’s death evoked horror, outrage and pleas for peace on the streets of Baltimore.
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January 19, 2012

Pope transfers Moscow archbishop to Belarus

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Moscow to head the Archdiocese of Minsk-Mohilev in Belarus.
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January 19, 2012

At center named for Blessed John Paul II, people remember his legacy

WASHINGTON – Catholics of all ages from throughout the Washington area, with roots in countries around the world, came together at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center May 1 to remember the life and holiness of a man who that day was declared as “Blessed” by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
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January 19, 2012

Gazan Catholics in West Bank say inability to leave is mixed blessing

JERUSALEM – For some Gazan Catholics, it was a mixed blessing being stuck in the West Bank as Israel attacked the Gaza Strip.
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January 19, 2012

Catholic leaders welcome documents on artificial nutrition

WASHINGTON – Catholic health care and ethical groups thanked the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for clarifying its stand on artificial nutrition and hydration for patients in a persistent vegetative state in a pair of Sept. 14 documents.
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January 19, 2012

Seton Keough ties three generations of family together

Shannon Flynn doesn’t just follow in legacies. She creates them. When she graduates from Baltimore’s Seton Keough High School May 26 with a 4.0 grade point average, Flynn will be remembered as a standout member of the chorus and theater groups.
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January 19, 2012

Church appeals to rebels, government for lives of displaced Congolese

KIWANJA, Congo – As the rains fall in eastern Congo, Luisa Riziki huddles inside a tent she cobbled together out of bent branches and plastic sheeting, her four children gathered at her side on the bare ground.
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January 19, 2012

Food, water must be provided to vegetative patients

VATICAN CITY – In a brief document approved by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican said it was generally a moral obligation to provide food and water to patients in a vegetative state. Nutrition and hydration, even by artificial means, cannot simply be terminated because doctors have determined that a person will never recover consciousness, the...
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January 19, 2012

Millennial Series Part 2: Landscape accelerates challenges

By the time you reach the end of this sentence, millions of young people will have changed their Facebook status, tweeted a photo and provided their precise location via Foursquare – all with a few keystrokes.
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January 19, 2012

Number of sex abuse claimants reaches 288 in Fairbanks Diocese

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – The number of people claiming to have been sexually abused by Catholic priests and other church workers in the Fairbanks Diocese over the past six decades more than doubled after the diocese filed for bankruptcy protection in March.
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January 19, 2012

Newly arrived in U.S., Catholic Iraqi refugees eager to work

OAKLAND, Calif. – Their family home in Fallujah, Iraq, was shelled, burned and looted. They languished for two years in Istanbul, Turkey, within the cultural and vocational limbo accorded refugees who are waiting to be permanently resettled somewhere, sometime. Now that Hana, Wafa and Sana Toma have found a permanent home in the Oakland Diocese...
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