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January 19, 2012

Haitian bishops agree on program to oversee church reconstruction

WASHINGTON – Haitian bishops agreed Sept. 24 to the creation of a broad-based reconstruction program involving church partners from around the world that will guide how parishes and Catholic schools destroyed in the January earthquake are rebuilt.
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January 19, 2012

Archdiocese honors youths with Eagle of the Cross awards

Brendan Young wasn’t seeking awards when he assumed a major leadership role for the youth group of St. Margaret in Bel Air.
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January 19, 2012

Historians, diplomats cast doubts on KGB plot

BUCHAREST, Romania – Historians and communist-era diplomats have cast doubts on a former Romanian general’s claim that he helped with a KGB plot to portray Pope Pius XII as a Nazi sympathizer in order to weaken the Catholic Church. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, a Romanian intelligence chief under dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, said that between 1960...
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January 19, 2012

Astronomers meeting in Rome share discoveries, dreams of finding life

ROME – Normally filled with theology students, the creaking classroom seats of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas were crammed with planetary scientists and astronomers from all over the world.
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January 19, 2012

Social, legal remedies for violence against women

NEW YORK – Violence against women, both in the United States and around the world, is on the rise and must be addressed with a potent combination of social, legal and economic remedies, said a panel of speakers Feb. 27 in New York. “Addressing Violence Against Women” was the topic of a panel discussion at...
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January 19, 2012

New pastors appointed by archbishop

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien announced the appointment of several new pastors. Biographical capsules of each follow.
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January 19, 2012

Owls overwhelm the MIAA A Conference

All season long, top-ranked Towson Catholic High School, Towson, focused on teamwork. It was a challenge for boys’ basketball head coach Josh Pratt, who had the tough job of balancing superstar-quality athletes with the greater good of a promising season, but he found a way to make it happen. “What can I say,” said Coach...
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January 19, 2012

Pope meets with schoolchildren, offers a lesson on sainthood

LONDON – In a rousing encounter with some 4,000 schoolchildren, Pope Benedict XVI asked them to make friendship with God the center of their lives.
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January 19, 2012

Parish opens teleconferencing center

When pastoral leaders from the westernmost corner of Maryland participate in archdiocesan meetings, it often means a 165-mile trek to Baltimore. Monsignor Thomas Bevan, pastor of St. Patrick in Cumberland, hopes the travel burden will be lightened now that his parish has opened a new media/teleconference center that will soon make it possible to see...
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January 19, 2012

African bishops: Continent has not shared success of poverty reduction

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Although average incomes in Africa have risen, the continent has not shared in the global success in reducing poverty, African bishops said before a visit to Europe to share their concerns over efforts to reduce extreme poverty worldwide.
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January 19, 2012

California bishops join in fight against proposal

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California Catholic bishops are joining with a coalition of medical, ethical and disability rights groups to fight a new effort to legalize assisted suicide in the state. The Web site of the California Catholic Conference, the public policy agency of the state’s bishops, includes a link to Californians Against Assisted Suicide,...
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January 19, 2012

In former slave dungeon, U.S. bishop finds sadness, reconciliation

CAPE COAST, Ghana – It’s dark, damp and warm in the stone dungeon of the Cape Coast Castle Museum.
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