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January 19, 2012

Minnesota priest named to Crookston post

Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Bishop Victor H. Balke of Crookston, Minn., and appointed as his successor Monsignor Michael J. Hoeppner, vicar general of the Diocese of Winona, Minn.
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January 19, 2012

CHA president affirms bishop’s role in interpreting health directives

WASHINGTON – In an exchange of letters with the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the head of the Catholic Health Association has affirmed that the local bishop is the “authoritative interpreter” of the ethical and religious directives that guide Catholic health care.
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January 19, 2012

Poignant moments, some surprises in new film about late pope

VATICAN CITY – Pope John Paul II was lightly wounded by a knife-wielding priest in Portugal in 1982, one year after a gunman tried to kill him in St. Peter’s Square, according to one of the late pope’s closest aides.
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January 19, 2012

Priests encouraged to show charity to other Christians

If Catholics hope to find greater unity with Christians of other denominations, they need to embrace a sense charity and reconciliation when reaching out to other believers, according to one of the world’s leading experts in ecumenism.
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January 19, 2012

Educators outline ways Catholic schools contribute to wider society

PORTLAND, Ore. – Love or hate their politics, new House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, and Democratic Vice President Joe Biden are products of Catholic education. Both men rose from humble circumstances.
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January 19, 2012

New Knights’ survey outlines Catholic views on host of moral issues

WASHINGTON – American Catholic voters in 2008 tend to be more moderate and less liberal than U.S. voters as a whole, according to a survey commissioned by the Knights of Columbus and released Oct. 14.
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January 19, 2012

New seminarians ‘prayerful and eager to learn’

SEWARD, Neb. – The 23 newcomers attending St. Gregory the Great Seminary in Seward this fall are “full of questions, obviously prayerful and eager to learn,” said Father John Folda, seminary rector. “They’re going to be a great group of seminarians, I have no doubt,” he added. Among them are 19 young men who are...
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January 19, 2012

U.S. monthlong observance targets ‘global travesty’ of human trafficking

WASHINGTON – By proclaiming January Human Trafficking Prevention Month, President Barack Obama signified he is “very much in touch” with a problem he has called “a global travesty,” said Julie Tanner, assistant director of socially responsible investing for Christian Brothers Investment Services.
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January 19, 2012

Indulgences available at St. Paul

During the Year of St. Paul, which concludes June 28, 2009, pilgrims who visit St. Paul in Ellicott City may obtain a special plenary indulgence (remission before God of the temporal punishment of sin).
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January 19, 2012

Maryland Court rules in favor of traditional marriage

Extolling the Maryland State Court of Appeals for upholding the state’s definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, the leader of the Maryland Catholic Conference said the high court “made a significant and wise judgment to protect the vital institution of marriage.”
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January 19, 2012

Polar Bear Plunge warms hearts of mother-daughter team

There was a time when Karen Pizza, like many people, didn’t know how to interact with a special needs person.
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January 19, 2012

Jesuit returns to his beloved downtown parish

For Father William J. Watters, S.J., it marked a homecoming. Father Watters, who had served as pastor of St. Ignatius, Baltimore, from 1991 to 2005, returned to that position Oct. 4, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien announced.
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