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January 19, 2012

Catholic Charities Day in Annapolis

As Del. Steven J. DeBoy Sr. prepared for a busy day representing Baltimore and Howard counties in the Maryland General Assembly, a group of Catholic Charities employees ushered an ex-convict into his office. The Catholic state delegate and special investigator for the Howard County Police Department sized up 51-year-old Edwin Gregory of Baltimore as he...
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January 19, 2012

Human rights report gets little U.S. notice, but has a broad reach

WASHINGTON – While much of Washington focused on health care legislation, the annual release of the State Department’s country reports on human rights practices was largely out of the limelight this year, though the massive electronic document – more than 2 million words – helps shape U.S. policy approaches to the world.
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January 19, 2012

Schools find priceless help in volunteers

When it comes to the worth of St. Ursula School volunteers, Sister Joan Kelly, S.N.D. de N., says she could never “put a dollar figure on it.” “They help as classroom volunteers, they work in the library, and they work in the lunchroom and schoolyard,” the principal of the Parkville school said. “They assist in...
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January 19, 2012

Stoops family reaches out to city’s homeless

Despite enormous eight-foot mounds of snow that still lined Baltimore’s streets two weeks after the February blizzard, hundreds of homeless people found their way to St. Vincent de Paul Feb. 19.
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January 19, 2012

Teens explore theology in Pinkard Scholars Program

Tristan Deppe acknowledges that then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s “Introduction to Christianity” was not exactly at the top of his reading list. But the text by the future Pope Benedict XVI was just one of several weighty theological works the 16-year-old parishioner of Immaculate Heart of Mary, Baynesville, read for the first time last semester as one...
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop commends receiving school principals

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien met with principals from institutions designated elementary receiving schools March 12.
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January 19, 2012

Bishops agency seeks to raise poverty awareness

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Catholic Campaign for Human Development has been waging a new media campaign to raise awareness in the nation, especially among the nation's Catholics, about the extent and impact of poverty in America. "Right now in America 37 million people are working to become independent while struggling to afford the very basics...
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January 19, 2012

Bishop criticizes singling out Irish church for mishandling abuse

DUBLIN, Ireland – A senior Irish bishop criticized the singling out of the Catholic Church for mishandling allegations of child sexual abuse.
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January 19, 2012

Abortion is not the only issue

I wish to respectfully disagree with James Dickinson’s letter (CR, Jan. 4), in which he states that the right to life should take issue before all others – meaning the end of legal abortion. I agree with him that Democrats should change the pro-abortion platform. In the same breath, if the Republicans think that prolife...
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January 19, 2012

Gov. O’Malley supports business tax credit for schools

ANNAPOLIS – A business tax credit benefitting public and nonpublic schools received a major boost March 3 when Gov. Martin J. O’Malley threw his public support behind the long-sought measure.
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January 19, 2012

Church struggles to judge communist collaborators

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The resignation of a Polish archbishop over spying revelations has highlighted a tension between judgment and forgiveness in the church, one that has taken on new meaning in post-communist Europe. In the broadest sense, it’s a tension found in the teaching of Christ, who preached forgiveness but told his followers to...
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January 19, 2012

Vermont diocese to sell headquarters, camp to pay for abuse claims

WASHINGTON – The statewide Diocese of Burlington, Vt., is preparing to sell its headquarters building and a now-closed camp to help pay for claims and judgments stemming from clerical sexual abuse.
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