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January 19, 2012

Investing in Hispanic/Latino leadership

As the United States becomes more ethnically and culturally diverse, the Hispanic/Latino community will be one of the principle crucibles out of which leadership develops, emerges and plays a major role. As Hispanic/Latinos take on an increasing role in determining leadership in the Catholic Church in the U.S., they will face new challenges related to...
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January 19, 2012

More than 2,000 see Archbishop Dolan’s installation in New York

NEW YORK – St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York overflowed with people, music, incense and good will for the April 15 installation of Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan as the 10th archbishop of New York.
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January 19, 2012

Audrey Santo, inspiration to many, dies

WORCESTER, Mass. – In silence, Audrey Santo witnessed to the world, preachers and participants said at an April 17 wake for her at St. Paul Cathedral in Worcester and at her funeral Mass there the following day. Santo, 23, who died April 14 at home, was in a comalike state, unable to move or speak,...
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January 19, 2012

Priests for Life head is needed for work in Texas, Bishop Zurek says

WASHINGTON – Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, remains a priest in good standing in the Diocese of Amarillo, Texas, said Monsignor Harold Waldow, vicar for clergy in the diocese.
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January 19, 2012

Former Paraguayan bishop, now president, admits to fathering child

ASUNCION, Paraguay – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, the former bishop who was elected in 2008, admitted April 13 that he had fathered a child, now nearly two years old, who was born before Lugo was laicized.
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January 19, 2012

Less chatter, more prayer at Mass

I would like to address two problems my wife and I and our 10-year-old son encounter every time we attend Mass. We regularly attend the 5 p.m. Mass on Saturday but have also noticed this problem when our needs call for us to attend a Sunday Mass. That is the subject of people talking in...
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January 19, 2012

Students earn the Daniel Rudd Scholarship

The Office of African American Catholic Ministries of the Archdiocese of Baltimore released the names of the recipients of the first Daniel Rudd Scholarship. The Daniel Rudd Scholarship Fund is administered by the office and board of African American Catholic Ministries. The scholarship named after the founder of the National Black Catholic Congress is open...
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January 19, 2012

Vermont legalizes same-sex marriage; D.C. recognizes same-sex unions

BURLINGTON, Vt. – Vermont legislators voted to override the governor’s veto of same-sex marriage legislation April 7, making the state the fourth to allow same-sex marriage and the first to do so without a court order.
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January 19, 2012

Friars champion the importance of readiness

For the last seven lacrosse seasons, Archbishop Curley, Baltimore, has seen their program slowly, but surely, improve. After a solid effort in 2006, the Friars were edged out of the championship game by a lone goal in the semis against Park School, Baltimore; but now in 2007, the Friars are on a tear, undefeated and...
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January 19, 2012

Japanese gather in prayer to mark six months since multiple disasters

TOKYO – The church bell tolled at 2:46 p.m., marking six months since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan.
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January 19, 2012

Confused by movie endorsement

I was surprised and confused by the advertisement for the movie “Knowing” (CR, April 2). I was concerned that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called it “a meditation on faith and family unity.” I saw it and was horrified. I saw it as a science fiction movie that tries to depict a potentially mentally...
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January 19, 2012

Second-graders re-enact Last Supper

DENVER – It looked amazingly like the Leonardo da Vinci painting of the Last Supper – only the faces seated around the long table were those of 7- and 8-year-olds. For some 15 years, Karen Merten has had her second-graders at Blessed Sacrament School in Denver re-enact the Last Supper to deepen their understanding of...
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