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January 19, 2012

Letters touch nerve in reader

Two letters caught my eye (CR, Feb. 10). Thomas J. Smith requests more “low” masses in order to “hear and respond to the words of preparation and consecration of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ,” and not be listening to a musical performance.
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January 19, 2012

Fordham gives ethics prize to Breyer despite protests

WASHINGTON – Jesuit-run Fordham University’s law school presented U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer with a prestigious ethics prize Oct. 29, despite a protest held outside the event and a call by a national Catholic organization to rescind the honor in light of the judge’s support for legal abortion.
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January 19, 2012

Changes in food system needed, rural Catholic conference told

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (CNS) -- Mike Callicrate is a straight-talking plainsman with a blunt, hard message: Your food is killing you, and your food system is killing your community and nation.
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January 19, 2012

Ireland’s Labor Party pledges to seek legalization of abortion

DUBLIN – In an election campaign document, Ireland’s Labor Party pledged to introduce legislation legalizing abortion if the party rises to power.
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January 19, 2012

Mexican American Cultural Center evolves into Catholic college

SAN ANTONIO – What began in 1972 as the Mexican American Cultural Center has evolved into the Mexican American Catholic College.
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January 19, 2012

St. Scholastica

St. Scholastica is the patron saint of nuns and against rain. A nun, she consecrated her life to God when she was young. According to the writing of St. Gregory, St. Scholastica’s brother, St. Benedict, visited with her about once a year to talk of spiritual matters. On one occasion, St. Scholastica prayed to God...
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January 19, 2012

Pennsylvania Avenue: Corridor of African American Catholic History

Once a major venue for entertainers of national repute, Pennsylvania Avenue holds a rich history for African-American Catholics. Here one finds the “Mother Church” for African-American Catholics in West Baltimore, the site of the original seminary for the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and a monument recognizing the formation of the Oblate Sisters...
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January 19, 2012

Pope calls for help to end violence against Indian, Iraqi Christians

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI called on government and religious leaders to help end acts of “cruel violence” and intolerance many minority Christians are facing in some parts of the world, especially in Iraq and India.
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January 19, 2012

St. John of God

St. John of God was very wild when he was young. He was a soldier in the army as Charles V and was also a mercenary. Though he didn’t have any religious beliefs while he was young, he sold religious books. After St. John of God had a vision of Jesus while he was in...
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January 19, 2012

Priest wonders if Egypt will be better for Christians with Mubarak gone

VICTORIA, Texas – Trinitarian Father Alfonso Serna, who spent the first year after his 2009 ordination ministering in Egypt, said he is not sure whether a regime change in Egypt will help the minority Christian population there.
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January 19, 2012

Panel deconstructs notion of a ‘Catholic vote’ and what defines it

WASHINGTON – The first Catholic from a major political party to appear on a U.S. presidential ticket wasn’t nominated in 1928 because the Democrats were consciously trying to attract Catholic voters but because the party leaders figured they had nothing to lose.
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January 19, 2012

St. Celsus of Armagh

St. Celsus of Armagh, a Benedictine monk, was born in Ireland in 1079. He is said to have been the last hereditary archbishop of Armagh in Ireland. He taught in Oxford, England. He traveled across Ireland to preach and reform. In 1111, he helped preside at a synod that helped align the Irish church with...
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