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January 19, 2012

Archdiocesan institutions receive Knott grants

Ten institutions of the Archdiocese of Baltimore were among 34 organizations to receive grants from the Knott Foundation, which was founded in 1977 by Marion I. and Henry J. Knott.
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January 19, 2012

At May Procession, students honor Blessed Virgin with hearts, hands, voices

After a beautiful May Procession May 2, St. Agnes School’s May Queen, Bridget Boland, sat quietly in the third pew of the Catonsville church and looked up at the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary with reverence and love.
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January 19, 2012

Nobel prize ignores moral problems with IVF, says Italian professor

VATICAN CITY – Honoring one of the inventors of in vitro fertilization with the Nobel Prize for Medicine “ignores all the ethical problems” connected to the creation of so-called “test tube babies,” an Italian professor told Vatican Radio.
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January 19, 2012

Chinese Catholic bishop carries Olympic torch on its way to Beijing

TANGSHAN, China – A Chinese Catholic bishop said the local church’s engagement in society has enabled him to carry the Olympic torch on its way to Beijing.
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January 19, 2012

Violent video games prove their own source of worry on the tube

WASHINGTON – Don’t like what you see on TV? Pick your poison. One kind of poison is the unwelcome stuff that’s sent through the airwaves (or public rights-of-way, thanks to cable) with offensive or objectionable content that you, the viewer, never asked for in the first place.
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January 19, 2012

Boys Hope scholars receive CND honor

College of Notre Dame of Maryland awarded the President’s Medal to the eight young men of Baltimore’s Boys Hope Girls Hope Sept. 25 at the school’s Honors Convocation inside LeClerc Auditorium.
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January 19, 2012

And the summer reading list is …

I’ve yet to see anyone reading with a “Kindle” or an I-Pod at the beach, so there may be hope for civilization yet. Summer is meant for real reading. Happily, there’s no lack of informative and amusing new stuff this year.
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January 19, 2012

Pope lays out crossroads for Catholic higher education

Midway through his U.S. visit, Pope Benedict XVI told Catholic college and university presidents that using a Catholic campus as a platform to teach something that contradicts the church’s teaching is an abuse of academic freedom. Commenting on that remark, Father Thomas Reese, S.J., offered an interesting slant. “In a sense, he’s exercising his own...
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January 19, 2012

Hermit lives out ancient vocation in Essex

ESSEX – It once served as a fisherman’s shack on the banks of Norman Creek.
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January 19, 2012

Vatican approves new English translations for constant parts of Mass

WASHINGTON – The Vatican has given its approval to a new English-language translation of the main constant parts of the Mass, but Catholics in the pew are unlikely to see any of the approved changes at Masses for a while to allow for catechesis on the reasons for the revisions.
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January 19, 2012

Second collection benefits seminarians

The annual collection to benefit seminarians in the Archdiocese of Baltimore will take place May 3-4 in parishes. This is the only collection throughout the year that supports the archdiocese’s effort to form and educate men to become priests. All proceeds directly support the educational costs related to seminary formation. Each seminarian is formed pastorally,...
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January 19, 2012

Kentucky execution stayed; advocates try to block Virginia execution

WASHINGTON – The execution of a death-row inmate in Kentucky remained on hold indefinitely after a Kentucky judge stopped it over questions raised about the man’s below-average mental abilities and possible problems with the state’s execution process.
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