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January 19, 2012

Lost Calvert Hall ring returned after 40 years

When Calvert Hall 1966 graduate John “Jay” H. Comi served in the Merchant Marine 1967-69 aboard a cruise ship, his heart sank along with his class ring when he realized he lost the gold piece in the surf of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. As a junior, Mr. Comi had received the ring from Calvert...
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January 19, 2012

Ruling on embryonic stem-cell funding called ‘victory for common sense’

WASHINGTON – Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo praised a federal judge’s recent ruling that temporarily stopped federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, but the U.S. Department of Justice said it would appeal the decision.
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January 19, 2012

Prison ministry program called too religious

ST. LOUIS – The need for states to help inmates turn their lives around was a central but undisputed part of a case before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis Feb. 13. But the question before the judges, including retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, was...
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January 19, 2012

New York mosque controversy echoes anti-Catholicism of another era

WASHINGTON – The controversy over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque a couple of blocks away from ground zero in New York is but the latest manifestation of a historic cycle of distrust of immigrants - and their faith.
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January 19, 2012

Conference calls for healing

How does faith call us to bring hope and healing to the world? Discuss this topic March 12-16 at Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, when they host the third annual Callings Conference: Bearers of Hope and Healing. Callings is a program for the theological exploration of Christian vocation.
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January 19, 2012

A snapshot of our new priests

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien has asked four individuals to serve as guest columnists in August. The third is Sulpician Father Thomas R. Hurst, the president-rector of St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore.
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January 19, 2012

Cardinal says China, Vatican must negotiate

HONG KONG – Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun of Hong Kong has reiterated the need for negotiations to resolve the issue of Catholic bishops’ ordinations in mainland China and to find a bilaterally acceptable way of normalizing relations. Cardinal Zen said illegitimate episcopal ordinations have created new obstacles for the dialogue between China and the Vatican...
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January 19, 2012

Runners have opportunity to create fun, help a cause

September and October are traditionally filled with some of year’s road-racing events. Some of the more popular events and those sponsored by institutions in the Archdiocese of Baltimore follow.
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January 19, 2012

Grease helps loosen rivalry among schools

Scattered throughout the auditorium of The Cardinal Gibbons School, Baltimore, students from Mount de Sales Academy, Catonsville; Institute of Notre Dame, Baltimore; The Seton Keough High School; Cardinal Gibbons; and Mount St. Joseph High School, Irvington, practiced their lines, dance moves and songs. When dressed in costume, no one could tell which student was from...
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January 19, 2012

Cardinal calls Mexican court decision on marriage ‘aberrant judgment’

MEXICO CITY – Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City denounced a recent Mexican Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of a same-sex marriage law in the nation’s capital as an “aberrant judgment.”
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January 19, 2012

Course for inmates helps changes lives

PITTSBURGH – Inmates at the Allegheny County Jail in downtown Pittsburgh who get accepted into a program to help them straighten out their lives know “they’ve got to put some work into it,” said the chaplain who heads the program. “It’s very much about self-discipline. They have to get up, make their beds, keep their...
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January 19, 2012

Father Michael Carrion makes anthem ‘Holy’

Father Michael W. Carrion celebrates Mass in front of hundreds of people each weekend as pastor of Baynesville’s Immaculate Heart of Mary
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