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January 19, 2012

Archbishop Chullikatt makes plea at U.N. for complete disarmament

UNITED NATIONS – Any discussion of disarmament and arms control must take several ideas into consideration and must understand the link between weapons reduction and people’s development, said the Vatican’s new representative to the United Nations.
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January 19, 2012

Marianist brother works to change attitudes on the death penalty

Brother Frank J. O’Donnell, S.M. was scared the first time he conducted a Scripture study for a group of men serving life terms at the Maryland Correctional Institute in Jessup.
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January 19, 2012

Eucharist: A Sacrament of Initiation

The story is told of a wise professor who constantly probed the knowledge of his class by asking questions and seeking responses. It would not be uncommon for the professor to ask a student to explain a concept. On one occasion when the professor posed a question to a student, the student began a response...
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January 19, 2012

Unlikely band heads to Rome for canonization of Blessed Mary MacKillop

Without the urgency Dolores Orlando feels to protect humanity wherever it is endangered, a man with a family link to Blessed Mary MacKillop and some of their mutual friends would not have an informed Catholic sharing insight into the rituals the group will observe when she becomes Australia’s first saint Oct. 17.
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January 19, 2012

A prison stay of a different kind

Yes, several Oblates Sisters of Providence and most of their boarders had to spend some time in the state prison, located on Eager Street across from the school. No, the Sisters and students were not arrested for breaking a law or even for protesting. This was before the Civil Rights movement. The group went to...
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January 19, 2012

Shrine of the Sacred Heart celebrates 140 years

Parishes are the bedrocks of the Catholic community, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien said June 1 as he celebrated the 140th anniversary of The Shrine of the Sacred Heart, Mount Washington.
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January 19, 2012

Vatican-ordered investigation to focus on abuse victims in Ireland, Vatican says

VATICAN CITY – The apostolic visitation of the Catholic Church in Ireland will pay special attention to victims of clerical sex abuse as part of its overall goal of helping the local church respond adequately to past cases of abuse and to perfect preventative measures, according to the Vatican.
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January 19, 2012

Dowling remembered as formidable leader

While many lawmakers in Annapolis expressed sadness that Richard J. Dowling is retiring as head of the Maryland Catholic Conference, some will be elated.
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January 19, 2012

Nearly 1,000 gather to honor the life of Father Kevin Brooksbank

Standing in the sunlight in front of Father Kevin Brooksbank’s home parish of St. Joseph, Cockeysville, longtime friend Father Timothy Donahue remarked that he could “stand here all day” and tell stories about the priest he befriended on the first day of class at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Roland Park 13 years ago.
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January 19, 2012

Catholics condemn 1940s experiments on Guatemalans as abuse of power

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Catholic leaders condemned the Tuskegee-like medical experiments U.S. researchers carried out on Guatemalans in the 1940s, calling them a “deplorable” abuse of power.
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January 19, 2012

YouthWorks focus shines on Mercy

When it came time for Gov. Martin O’Malley to acknowledge Baltimore City’s YouthWorks program, he did so at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, which this summer gave eight teens valuable job experience and sponsored the employment of another seven elsewhere.
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January 19, 2012

Iowa community rallies to help families after raids

WATERLOO, Iowa – As the people arrested in a May 12 immigration raid in Iowa were processed and sent off to prison or deported, church leaders, pastoral ministers and community organizers in northeast Iowa struggled with what they called the tragic and devastating effects of the enforcement action.
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