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January 19, 2012

Calvert Hall College dismisses head football coach

The administration of Calvert Hall College High School, Towson, after meeting with Coach Jay Robinson, announced that the school is seeking a new head coach for the 2007 football season. The school’s administration offered this statement: “We thank Jay for his integrity, dedication and hard work throughout the past eight years. Jay has been invited...
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January 19, 2012

Memories of parish life remain strong

Each year on the first Sunday of Advent, Father Jim would celebrate Mass for several families in our neighborhood at one of our homes. The Mass included the blessing of our Advent wreaths and was followed by dinner. Between Mass and dinner, he would regale us with the biography of an obscure saint – we...
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January 19, 2012

Grap breaks school record

On Dec. 8, two minutes into the second half of a 52-35 non-conference basketball victory over Havre de Grace High School, senior Briana Grap hit a three-point field goal giving her 1,143 career points and the career scoring record for women at Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School, Middle River. Grap has twice been...
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January 19, 2012

Pope orders changes to clarify canon law on deacons, some marriages

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has made changes in church law to clarify the role of deacons and to remove an ambiguity about the marriage status of some Catholics.
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January 19, 2012

British cardinal denounces secularization

LONDON (CNS) -- A British cardinal said Great Britain is being reduced to a "profoundly needy land" by attempts to purge religion from public life. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor of Westminster, president of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, said secularization has led to the collapse of shared moral values and has created a sense...
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January 19, 2012

Vatican says pope outraged by sex abuse in Ireland

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI shares “the outrage, betrayal and shame” felt by Irish Catholics over cases of clerical sexual abuse and the way abuse claims were handled by church leaders, and he plans to write a special pastoral letter to the Catholics of Ireland, the Vatican said.
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January 19, 2012

New All Saints cake lady brightens holiday spirits

When approaching the front of Rita Martin’s Randallstown home, one can’t help but notice the attention the New All Saints, Liberty Heights, parishioner has given to the colorful Christmas decorations illuminating the house. But it’s the aroma of baking rum cakes that really lets new arrivers know the spirit of the holidays is alive and...
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop O’Brien names new cathedral rector

As Monsignor Robert A. Armstrong prepares to retire as rector of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien has named a Glen Burnie pastor to succeed him in the high-profile post.
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January 19, 2012

Australian Parliament legalizes embryonic cloning

SYDNEY, Australia (CNS) -- Australian legislators legalized the use of embryonic cloning for research despite objections from Australian Prime Minister John Howard. A Dec. 6 parliamentary vote lifted a four-year ban on human cloning by allowing the cloning of embryos through somatic cell nuclear transfer, commonly called therapeutic cloning.
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January 19, 2012

Homosexuals deserve respect, compassion, says Vatican spokesman

VATICAN CITY – In response to a report that a Mexican cardinal stated homosexuals will be banished from heaven, the Vatican spokesman said people should treat those who have homosexual tendencies with respect and compassion.
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January 19, 2012

‘Hate eats you inside’: 95-year-old Holocaust survivor speaks at John Carroll

Georges Selzer stood naked in the snow when guards at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland tattooed a camp number on his left forearm: 101100. Standing at a podium more than six decades later, the 95-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor calmly unbuttoned and rolled up his left sleeve to show some 30 students at The...
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January 19, 2012

‘Beautiful liturgy’ highlights St. Pius X renovations

Jim Burke walked through a foot of snow down York Road to be at the first Mass celebrated at St. Pius X, Rodgers Forge, in 1958.
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