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January 19, 2012

St. Emilian

St. Emilian lived in the fourth century. He was a martyr of Sillistria, which is located in Bulgaria. He died for his faith while Julian the Apostate was emperor.
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January 19, 2012

Church has right to bring Gospel values to public debate, pope says

VATICAN CITY – Catholic teaching and the truths of the Gospel have a right to be heard in public debate, especially in a country where so many people claim to be Christian, Pope Benedict XVI told the bishops of England and Wales.
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January 19, 2012

St. Teresa Benedicta

St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was born with the name Edith Stein in what is now Wroclaw, Poland, in October 1891 to a Jewish family. She received a doctorate in philosophy in 1916. After seeing the strong faith of her Catholic friends, she began to study the catechism of the Catholic Church. She converted...
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January 19, 2012

New law allows U.S. taxpayers to take 2009 deduction for Haiti relief

WASHINGTON – Under a new U.S. tax law, people who have donated to charities providing relief to Haitians since the Jan. 12 earthquake can take a tax deduction for the contribution on their 2009 tax return instead of their 2010 return.
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January 19, 2012

Our Lady of Sorrows

Today is the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. St. John the Evangelist wrote in his Gospel that Mary was overwhelmed with grief as she stood at the foot of Jesus’ cross. There are traditionally seven sorrows of Mary: the prophecy of Simeon, the flight into Egypt, the loss of the child Jesus for three...
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January 19, 2012

Heeding Heidi: the empty gains of plastic surgery

Heidi Montag has given new meaning to the concept of one-stop shopping. The 23-year-old reality TV star – one of those who is famous for being famous – underwent 10 plastic-surgery procedures in one day, as pin pointed in People magazine and now scrutinized online.
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January 19, 2012

St. Bertilla

St. Bertilla Boscardin was born on Oct. 6, 1888, in Brendola, Italy. After working as a house servant when she was a young girl, she joined the Sisters of St. Dorothy, Daughters of the Sacred Heart in 1904. She began training as a nurse in 1907 and was later assigned to the hospital in Treviso....
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January 19, 2012

Participants at annual March for Life urged to keep up their efforts

WASHINGTON – Despite overcast skies, the mood at the Jan. 22 annual March for Life in Washington was decidedly upbeat as speaker after speaker urged the crowd to keep up their efforts in the pro-life arena.
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January 19, 2012

St. Sabbas

St. Sabbas was born in Cappadocia in 439. An anchorite as of age 30, he renounced the world in order to devote his life to prayer and work. He wove baskets, which he took to a monastery led by St. Euthymius to trade for food and materials to make more baskets. When St. Euthymius died,...
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January 19, 2012

Maryland Zoo offers summer camp

Whether it’s monitoring the behavior of penguins, prairie dogs and chimps or getting a behind-the-scenes glimpse of food preparation for elephants, summer campers are in for hands-on learning at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore.
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January 19, 2012

Hydes parish shows the way for Baltimore’s Operation Haiti

HYDES – Nineteen parishes in the Archdiocese of Baltimore adopt sister faith communities in the Diocese of Gonaives in Haiti, to the north of Port-au-Prince.
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January 19, 2012

People digging for loved ones under mountains of debris, says nuncio

VATICAN CITY – People have been pleading for help in digging loved ones out from under the rubble while others have fled to the hills for fear of tsunamis, said the Vatican’s nuncio to Haiti.
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