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January 19, 2012

Father Bak, ‘pioneer’ in diaconate, dies

Father Bernard S. Bak, one of the first permanent deacons ordained in the United States who later became a priest for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died in his Dundalk home June 8. He was 85. A funeral Mass was offered June 11 at St. Casimir in Canton, the parish in which Father Bak grew up...
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January 19, 2012

Catholic AIDS expert: Study lends credibility to faith leaders’ work

VIENNA – A new U.N. AIDS study has lent credibility to faith leaders who have long argued that behavioral change was a key to combating the spread of the illness, says a Catholic expert on the disease.
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January 19, 2012

Archdiocese collects scrap metal for statue of Pope John Paul

MEXICO CITY – The Archdiocese of Leon is collecting scrap metal to create a life-size statue of Pope John Paul II.
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January 19, 2012

Mercy Medical Center featured on cable series

Television viewers around the country will get a chance to see the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Mercy Medical Center in action this summer.
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January 19, 2012

Pope to proclaim year dedicated to St. Paul

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI plans to proclaim a year dedicated to St. Paul, in preparation for the 2,000th anniversary of the apostle’s birth, the Vatican said. The pope was scheduled to announce the commemorative year at a vespers service June 28 in the Basilica of St. Paul’s Outside the Walls in Rome, on...
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January 19, 2012

Mount de Sales to hold prayer service for student injured in Uganda bombing

Mount de Sales student Emily Kerstetter and her grandmother were injured during a July 11 bombing in Uganda.
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January 19, 2012

Hong Kong cardinal calls 10 years under China ‘series of frustrations’

WASHINGTON – For people in Hong Kong, the first 10 years of Chinese rule has been “a long series of frustrations,” said Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun. “On the surface, everything is like before,” Cardinal Zen told Catholic News Service in Washington May 30. However, he added, Chinese government authorities “are not keeping their...
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January 19, 2012

Love blossoms at College of Notre Dame’s Marikle Chapel

Halfway through her junior year at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Meghan Walton Young was despondent after her boyfriend abruptly ended their relationship.
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January 19, 2012

Meeting parents of kidnapped British girl, pope offers prayers

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI, meeting the parents of a 4-year-old British girl apparently kidnapped while the family was on vacation in Portugal, blessed a photograph of the little girl and offered his prayers. Kate and Gerry McCann, the Catholic parents of Madeleine, who has been missing since May 3, met the pope at...
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January 19, 2012

Church advocates push countries to begin to overcome ‘resource curse’

HUANCAYO, Peru – With its fields of potatoes and artichokes, the Mantaro Valley in the central Andes region of Junin is known as Peru’s breadbasket.
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January 19, 2012

Fishing a lifelong passion for Parkville priest

Growing up on the Eastern Shore, Monsignor James P. Farmer, pastor of St. Ursula in Parkville, learned how to fish at age 2 under the watchful eye of family members. Since then fishing and crabbing have been hobbies he thoroughly enjoys, especially when in the company of others. “Fishing forms great friendships and great memories,”...
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January 19, 2012

In major appointments, Cardinal Ouellet to head bishops’ congregation

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has appointed new heads of several Vatican departments, naming Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec as prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.
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