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January 19, 2012

Presbyteral Council Members

The presbyteral council, or consultative body of priests, which serves as a key advisory group to Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, has been formed. The 36-member council, required by the Code of Canon Law, is composed of 17 elected members, 15 appointed members and four ex officio members.
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January 19, 2012

Interfaith leaders pray for end to death penalty

After her brother became Baltimore’s 21st murder victim of 2007, Erricka Bridgeford couldn’t wait for the police to find the person who did it. Bridgeford dreamed of spitting in the murderer’s face. Male relatives thought of even more violent ways of exacting vengeance, she said.
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January 19, 2012

Leaders say they regret polemics over Pope Pius XII

VATICAN CITY – Members of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee expressed “deep regret over certain polemical and intemperate statements” being made about Pope Pius XII.
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January 19, 2012

St. Margaret pastor receives humanitarian award

Harford County Executive David R. Craig presented Monsignor G. Michael Schleupner, pastor of St. Margaret, Bel Air, with the Joseph Bond/Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award on Jan. 17.
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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

Teens have to adapt to cell phone-free retreats

Teens don’t talk – they message.
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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

Pope cancels visit after students threaten protests

VATICAN CITY – Following a letter of protest signed by 67 professors and threats of a demonstration by students, Pope Benedict XVI has canceled his planned visit to Rome’s Sapienza University.
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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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