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January 19, 2012

Orthodox, Catholics recognize pope’s primacy

ROME – Orthodox and Roman Catholics recognize that the bishop of Rome has primacy among all the world’s bishops, although they disagree on the extent to which his leadership translates into a concrete exercise of authority.
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January 19, 2012

Detroit Archdiocese, losing $42,000 a day, announces restructuring

DETROIT – A major financial restructuring plan for the Archdiocese of Detroit, which is losing approximately $42,000 per day, calls for a 29 percent decrease in the number of employees, the sale of buildings, moving administrative support offices to a more cost-efficient property in the city, and the elimination of the subsidy for The Michigan...
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January 19, 2012

Death penalty talk set for Nov. 7

Richard J. Dowling, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference, will speak about the Catholic Church’s position on the death penalty and Maryland efforts to abolish the death penalty during a Nov. 7 event at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen Parish Center in Homeland.
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January 19, 2012

Pope John Paul II built strong Catholic-Jewish ties, priest says

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – While the groundwork for improving Catholic-Jewish relations was laid out in the Second Vatican Council document “Nostra Aetate,” Pope John Paul II showed Catholics how to carry out the intentions of the document’s authors, said a priest who serves as a consultant on ecumenical and interreligious affairs to the U.S. Conference of...
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January 19, 2012

Bishop laments decision on contraceptives

PORTLAND, Maine – Bishop Richard J. Malone of Portland criticized an Oct. 17 vote by the Portland School Committee to allow girls as young as 11 years of age at one of its middle schools to obtain birth control at the school’s health center.
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January 19, 2012

Priest confirms excommunication; will keep urging women’s ordination

WASHINGTON – Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois has confirmed his excommunication from the Catholic Church but said he has not changed his view that women who are called to priesthood should be ordained.
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January 19, 2012

Vision of ‘Populorum Progressio’ not yet realized

UNITED NATIONS – If Pope Paul VI reappeared on earth to assess progress toward meeting the challenges he addressed in his 1967 social encyclical, “Populorum Progressio,” he would say: “You’ve done a lot, but you haven’t even started – and you’ve lost a lot of enthusiasm.”
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January 19, 2012

New Jersey bishops launch state campaign against same-sex marriage

TRENTON, N.J. – In New Jersey, where a vote on same-sex marriage is anticipated soon after the November elections, the state’s Catholic bishops are urging local Catholics to help uphold the sanctity of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman.
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January 19, 2012

Pride, commitment abound at St. Mary’s

As of Oct. 15, the St. Mary’s High School Saints and two-time defending champions from Archbishop Spalding High School, Severn, are sharing identical conference records in football as both clubs are undefeated at 4-0 in the MIAA B Conference.
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January 19, 2012

Judge upholds law requiring doctors to tell women abortion ends life

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A federal judge in South Dakota ruled Aug. 20 that a 2005 South Dakota law requiring doctors to inform patients that abortion kills a human being is constitutional.
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January 19, 2012

Mission Sunday collection is Oct. 22-23

When the second collection basket is passed to parishioners in churches throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore Oct. 22-23, they will be contributing to the Mission Sunday worldwide evangelization efforts.
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January 19, 2012

Health care decisions should be based on individual need

Many in the hierarchy of the church of North America seem to have a clouded view on the proposals being offered by President Obama and the Democrats in Washington on how best to fix our health care system. On the one hand they advocate universal coverage based on the notion of some social justice need....
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