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January 19, 2012

Benedictine sisters score needed funds during Super Bowl

PHOENIX – While the NFL and advertisers used Super Bowl XLII as a chance to further their enterprises and increase profits, some Benedictine sisters in Phoenix used the big game as an opportunity to further the work of the Catholic Church in spreading the Gospel.
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January 19, 2012

‘Our Lady of the Mountains’ formed, Monsignor Hannon to take Catholic Center post

A new parish is forming in Western Maryland. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien announced June 12 that he has accepted the recommendation of the Mountain Maryland Regional Planning Commission to unite the five existing Cumberland-area parishes into one faith community with a single pastoral staff, effective July 1.
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January 19, 2012

Year of St. Paul past halfway point

When Sister Mary Josephine Fritz entered the postulancy program as a Good Shepherd Sister 70 years ago, she asked her superior if she could take Paul as her religious name. The young postulant had always dreamed of becoming a missionary like St. Paul and hoped to claim the saint as her special patron.
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January 19, 2012

Married love about more than hearts, flowers and feelings

There’s an interesting transformation that happens in stores right after the Christmas holidays. As the sights and sounds of Christmas disappear, suddenly store shelves are filled with Valentine’s decorations, candies and gifts.
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January 19, 2012

On world stage and behind closed doors, Vatican works diplomatic levers

VATICAN CITY – Vatican City is the world’s smallest state, but it’s still considered a diplomatic nerve center, a place where the universal church meets global politics.
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January 19, 2012

Sri Lankan bishop joins hunger strike urging protection of civilians

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Bishop Thomas Savundaranayagam of the war-torn Diocese of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka has joined 300 Christian and Hindu hunger strikers urging action to protect civilians caught in the ethnic conflict.
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January 19, 2012

U.S. education secretary visits school in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS –The St. Peter Claver seventh-grade students were studying heredity and genetics when U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings dropped in for a visit Jan. 31. Teacher Rachel Pleis was using M&M candies in different colors to emphasize her points.
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January 19, 2012

‘Gym rat’ writes, produces, directs film on Catholic women’s hoops team

WASHINGTON – Imagine being able to write a movie about something that you were a part of, even if it was just a little bit.
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January 19, 2012

Black History Month starts with celebrating family

We greet Black History Month 2009 celebrating the 20th anniversary of The National Day of Prayer for the African-American Family with new hope and the blessed assurance that “we’ve got something to celebrate.”
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January 19, 2012

Sister Dorothy Marie Hennessey, peace activist, dies

DUBUQUE, Iowa – Franciscan Sister Dorothy Marie Hennessey, a teacher turned activist who made national news at age 88 when she was sentenced to federal prison for trespassing at a Georgia military base, died Jan. 24 at the age of 94.
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January 19, 2012

Vatican experts say tomb shows how Christian art grew from pagan Rome

VATICAN CITY – A newly restored third-century family tomb shows the gradual flowering of Christian funerary art as it grew out of ancient Rome’s multireligious and pagan cultures, said members of a Vatican archaeological commission.
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January 19, 2012

Archdiocese of Baltimore represented at March for Life

Bundled up in a pink coat and hat, a toddler slept peacefully in her stroller. She was completely unaware that all around her, an estimated 100,000 were participating in the 36th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., Jan. 22.
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