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January 19, 2012

Haitians see Lent as a time to ‘meet with God’

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – With a large cross of ashes on his forehead, Peter Noel - head bowed and deep in prayer - leaned on the windowsill at the back of the chapel where Ash Wednesday Mass was concluding.
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January 19, 2012

Cumberland-native relishes Archbishop O’Brien scholarship

Like any parent, Stuart Czapski always felt his daughter, Ann, was special. He saw the eldest of his four children as a kind person devoted to her faith and community who also excelled in the classroom.
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January 19, 2012

Sainthood congregation recommends Pope be named venerable

VATICAN CITY – Members of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes met May 8 to consider the cause of Pope Pius XII and apparently voted to recommend that Pope Benedict XVI formally declare him venerable. Passionist Father Ciro Benedettini, vice director of the Vatican press office, confirmed the congregation had met, but since the result of...
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January 19, 2012

California Supreme Court says it won’t speed up Proposition 8 hearing

SAN FRANCISCO – With a one-sentence order, the California Supreme Court March 1 denied a request to speed up consideration of a key question in the appeal over the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage.
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January 19, 2012

Armed men kidnap two nuns who work with Somali refugees in Kenya

VATICAN CITY – Two Italian nuns, both in their 60s, were kidnapped Nov. 10 in northeastern Kenya near the border with Somalia, the Vatican newspaper reported.
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January 19, 2012

Bridesmaid bingo to benefit day shelter

Women in frilly bridesmaids' dresses, a wedding cake and a traditional bouquet toss are just some of the trappings of a wedding – minus a bride or groom – that will mark the fourth-annual Bridesmaid's BINGO, a May 23 wedding-themed fundraiser for Catholic Charities' My Sister's Place.
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January 19, 2012

Philadelphia Catholics react to abuse revelations with mix of emotions

PHILADELPHIA – “Cry out full-throated and unsparingly,” says the first reading from Isaiah (58:1) for March 11 –- the date set for a Lenten prayer service at Philadelphia’s Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul.
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January 19, 2012

Notre Dame establishes school of education

When College of Notre Dame of Maryland dean of education Sister Sharon Slear arrived at the school 18 years ago, there was only traditional undergraduate course-work offered for potential teachers. The School Sister of Notre Dame saw possibilities for vast amounts of growth.
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January 19, 2012

Breaking medical myths

Dr. Norman Dy, a program director of the St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, Internal Medicine Residency who has his own private practice, uncovered the truth about medical myths in a recent interview.
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January 19, 2012

Deacon Tanghe, former Anglican to be ordained priest June 25

SEVERNA PARK – Warren Tanghe, ordained a transitional deacon by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien Feb. 26, will become a priest in the Catholic Church June 25.
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January 19, 2012

Holy Childhood Association fosters classroom missionaries

Anyone growing up in the Catholic Church through the 1960s might remember the term “pagan baby,” based on a parish/school program through which parishioners and students spiritually adopted babies from foreign countries to pray for them.
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January 19, 2012

Bishops’ work group affirms anti-abuse programs

WASHINGTON – A report sent to the U.S. bishops by their National Review Board and Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People said the safe environment education programs for children in dioceses across the nation are “a major accomplishment and one that must continually be maintained and reinforced.” It proposed criteria for evaluating...
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