News

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.
Read More

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.
Read More

Pope welcomes Chinese orchestra to Vatican, greets nation’s Catholics

VATICAN CITY – In welcoming China’s Philharmonic Orchestra to the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI said he was extending a hand of friendship to the Chinese people and greeting the country’s Catholics.
Read More

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.
Read More

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.
Read More

Doctor calls spirituality key to dying patient’s quality of life

SAN FRANCISCO – Medicine shrinks from caring for the spiritual needs of dying patients, even though spirituality is what most people yearn for most at the end of life, Franciscan Brother Daniel Sulmasy, a physician and philosopher, told an audience at the University of San Francisco April 28.
Read More

Catholic family’s backyard is a stop for Obama on swing through Iowa

DES MOINES, Iowa – President Barack Obama chose the backyard of a Catholic Des Moines family Sept. 29 to talk about issues ranging from the economy and taxes to education, poverty and health care.
Read More

A Wonderful and a Wonderfully Catholic Church

The almost half-million pilgrims who flocked to Sydney, Australia, for the 23rd World Youth Day (WYD) made the sacrifices necessary ultimately because of their love for our Church. One participant stated it for most of us: “We have a wonderful Catholic Church.”
Read More

The Mass Part 1: What we believe is what we pray and live

“Ite, Missa est.” This is the Latin ending of the Mass, rendered in English as: “The Mass is ended, go in peace.” “OK,” you’re thinking, “here’s another article — or worse, a series of articles — on the pre-Vatican II Mass.” Wrong. I know the old Latin Mass is a hot topic, but I start...
Read More

Pitts to Curley students: win some victory for humanity

Byron Pitts experienced déjà vu as he looked out to 572 students of Archbishop Curley High School Sept. 20.
Read More

EXPO brings families, church together

As friends of Miki Hill, the president of Catholic Family EXPO, Kelly and David Updike had annually circled her event on their summer schedules.
Read More

Baltimore pastor details evolution of multicultural ministry

BALTIMORE – With at least 42 different nations represented in the congregation of St. Matthew, Bishop Denis J. Madden, urban vicar, wants the pastor of the Baltimore parish to share how he cultivated his multicultural ministry.
Read More
1 1,487 1,488 1,489 1,490 1,491 1,758
En español »