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January 19, 2012

Pope canonizes four new saints, God’s ‘masterpieces’

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI canonized four new saints from Malta, Poland, the Netherlands and France and said they exemplified the many and varied forms of holiness in the church. “God’s wisdom is manifested in the cosmos, in the variety and beauty of its elements, but his masterpieces are the saints,” the pope said...
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January 19, 2012

Father Bayer, scholar-priest, dies

Father Edward J. Bayer, a scholar of moral theology and a former pastor who dedicated his retirement to teaching seminarians in New Guinea, died Feb. 18 after a brief battle with cancer. He was 79.
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January 19, 2012

Pope urges nations to protect religious freedom, family, environment

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI urged nations to protect religious freedom, the environment and the family in a speech to five new ambassadors to the Vatican. The pope welcomed the diplomats from Sudan, Burundi, Pakistan, Estonia and Iceland June 1 as they presented him with their credentials. While Catholics are a minority in the...
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January 19, 2012

Papal push could advance Catholic-Orthodox dialogue, bishop says

WASHINGTON – Although the 1995 encyclical “Ut Unum Sint” by Pope John Paul II helped with Catholic-Orthodox relations, more progress could be made with a nudge from the man currently occupying the chair of Peter, according to an Orthodox bishop who has been part of Catholic-Orthodox dialogues for more than a decade.
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January 19, 2012

New affinity Visa card supports missions and evangelization

NEW YORK – Catholics now have the opportunity to participate in the missionary work of the church each time they use a new affinity credit card. The Society for the Propagation of the Faith in New York recently announced the creation of the World Missions Visa credit card. The card will generate funds for the...
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January 19, 2012

Tens of thousands of Brazilian Catholics pick alternative to Carnival

SAO PAULO, Brazil – Tens of thousands of Brazilian Catholics did something different during the four days of Carnival. While their counterparts danced in the streets to the latest samba rhythm, these Catholics attended spiritual retreats.
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January 19, 2012

Arkansas parish tackles ‘Catholic Extreme Makeover’

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Call it a “Catholic Extreme Makeover.” When parishioners at Christ the King Church in Little Rock heard about Father Udochukwu “Udo” Vincent Ogbuji’s paralysis following a car wreck, they prayed for the priest’s recovery. And when their pastor, Monsignor Francis I. Malone, challenged them to renovate a house in less than...
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January 19, 2012

Pope condemns ‘plague’ of abortion in Romania, Moldova

VATICAN CITY – Even Catholic families in Romania and Moldova are falling victim “to the plagues of abortion, corruption, alcoholism and drug addiction, as well as birth control using methods contrary to the dignity of the human person,” Pope Benedict XVI said.
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January 19, 2012

Years after Pope John Paul II visits N.Y., his plays do likewise

NEW YORK – Playwrights Tom Stoppard and Harold Pinter needn’t worry about their names being usurped in posterity’s annals by Karol Wojtyla, the archbishop of Krakow, Poland, who became Pope John Paul II. But there is much to admire in the late pope’s drama, “The Jeweler’s Shop,” currently on view in New York, courtesy of...
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January 19, 2012

Metuchen opens sainthood cause for Venezuelan mystic who died in US

METUCHEN, N.J. – The sainthood cause has formally opened for Maria Esperanza Medrano de Bianchini, a Venezuelan woman believed to have seen 31 apparitions of Mary who spread worldwide a message of family reconciliation and fraternal unity that she said Mary relayed to her.
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January 19, 2012

Outdoor griller dons chef’s hat all year

The aroma of sizzling steak on a grill may permeate through Maryland neighborhoods mostly in warmer months, but it’s a scent Parkville residents – who live near Bob Delisle’s home – smell all year. The avid outdoor chef and St. Matthew, Northwood, parishioner doesn’t need to dust off his two grills in the late spring...
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January 19, 2012

Past disasters offer lessons for aid agencies in Haiti

LIMA, Peru – When a magnitude 8 earthquake crumbled houses and toppled churches in Pisco in August 2007, millions of dollars’ worth of aid poured into Peru from around the world.
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