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January 19, 2012

An anthem switch?

Although I have lived in the Washington, D.C., area since 1984, I am an orthodox Baltimorean by birth, nurture, education, baseball loyalties, and a settled disdain for offering tartar sauce with crab cakes. So I should be the last person to think the unthinkable about my native city’s principal contribution to American public culture (after,...
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January 19, 2012

Pope sends delegation to South Sudan independence celebration

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI named an official delegation to represent him at the July 9 independence celebrations in Southern Sudan and charged members with conveying his hopes for “peace and prosperity” to citizens of the world’s newest nation.
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January 19, 2012

Walters displays illuminated Scriptures

Its transparent wings beating in a flutter of motion, the locust almost seems ready to jump from the calf-skin parchment on which it is painted. Resting on a delicately arching green leaf, the insect is a physical reminder of a passage in the sacred text that fills the page.
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January 19, 2012

Pilgrims enjoy shrine to Mary

ROME – Calling the Blessed Virgin Mary the “first tabernacle that gave a home to Jesus,” Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien celebrated a June 27 Mass for more than 100 pilgrims inside the ornately decorated Borghese Chapel of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
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January 19, 2012

Local parishes pray for priests as pope celebrates ordination

GLYNDON – Future priests were very much on the minds of worshippers at Sacred Heart, Glyndon, July 1.
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January 19, 2012

Australian archbishop pledges church’s support to wildfire victims

CANBERRA, Australia – The head of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference said the Catholic Church would lend both spiritual and practical support to families victimized by a series of wildfires that left more than 180 dead in Victoria state.
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January 19, 2012

Iraqi refugees, Israeli-Palestinian tension await new Latin patriarch

JERUSALEM – The influx of Iraqi refugees into Jordan as well as continuing Israeli-Palestinian tensions are two of the major concerns the new Latin patriarch of Jerusalem said he would face after his June 22 installation.
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January 19, 2012

Summer Thoughts

With this, my last column prior to a bit of a summer hiatus, I thought I would use the occasion to tie up some loose ends by commenting on a number of topics that have been on my “to-do” list for some time.
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January 19, 2012

Pope, German chancellor discuss Holocaust-denying bishop

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI and German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke to each other on the telephone about the recent controversy surrounding a traditionalist bishop who has denied the Holocaust.
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January 19, 2012

Survey ranks worst places for refugees, issues report cards on others

WASHINGTON – Europe and Iraq were ranked among the 10 “worst places for refugees” in the 2008 World Refugee Survey for policies such as “warehousing” refugees for decades or for forcing them back to dangerous situations in their homelands.
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January 19, 2012

A mom with two kids now more likely to be counted among the homeless

WASHINGTON – Out of work and living in a shelter, Jasmine, a single mother, has one thing on her mind: reuniting her family.
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January 19, 2012

Spokesman: News that founder fathered child causes Legionaries pain

ROME – The Legionaries of Christ only recently found out that their founder had fathered a child, knowledge that has caused the members great suffering, but has not destroyed the gratitude they owe him, said a spokesman for the religious order.
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