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Chinese priest ordained coadjutor with approval of Vatican, government

YIBIN, China – With police officers and dogs monitoring the crowd at St. Mary’s Church, Father Peter Luo Xuegang was ordained coadjutor bishop of Yibin Diocese in southwestern China’s Sichuan province.

Youth ‘Focus’ on Vocations

A study conducted in the 1980s indicated that most priests and religious first seriously thought about ministry around the age of 11 and then again in their junior year of high school. Two years after that study, “Focus 11” was born. First instituted in the Archdiocese of Detroit, the program had two components: one aimed...

Catholic High soph running from competition

If there is one thing that Elizabeth Gonzalez knows that she’s definitely good at, it is running. Running with a passion and a purpose is something that The Catholic High School sophomore started doing in elementary school.

Paul McMullenLocal News, News

CRS partners include U of M Medical School leader who is Cathedral parishioner

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti –On a sweltering October day, a team of leaders from Catholic Relief Services stopped at St. Francois de Sales Hospital here to receive an update on plans to rebuild and transform it into a teaching hospital.

#Occupychurch- Start of an American faith revolution?

When I tackled the ramifications of the new Roman Missal translation, I pondered what it would mean for ex-Catholics or “fallaway Catholics.” Of course, there has been a split amongst Catholics who do attend church about the translations, which were implemented last week after months of preparations. It took a gigantic amount of effort and...

George P. Matysek Jr.Local News, News

Vatican will not consider Annapolis healing case

Vatican experts have declined to consider the case of the apparent healing of an Annapolis woman as the miracle needed for the canonization of Blessed Francis X. Seelos, a 19th century Redemptorist priest who was pastor of St. Alphonsus in Baltimore, St. Mary in Annapolis and Ss. Peter and Paul in Cumberland.

Catholic officials call for calm after Congo’s election violence

KINSHASA, Congo – Catholic officials called for calm after a tense day of polling in which violent incidents claimed the lives of nearly a dozen people during Congo’s presidential and legislative elections.

Baltimore teacher packs suitcase, trust for mission to Ethiopia

It’s only slightly unsettling to Marie Prosser that she possesses a one-way ticket to Ethiopia.

Pope urges international agreement on climate change

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI urged international leaders to reach a credible agreement on climate change, keeping in mind the needs of the poor and of future generations.

Parishes to mark feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

The Archdiocese of Baltimore has marked the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in recent years, but this year celebrations for the Dec. 12 feast will shift back to parishes that have a Hispanic ministry.

Catholic seminary enrollment up, but numbers seen as only part of story

WASHINGTON – In his first months as rector of Theological College in Washington, Father Phillip J. Brown has been confronting a problem that the national diocesan seminary for the U.S. Catholic Church “has not had for a long time” - it is bursting at the seams.

November 29, 2011

Meet Sister Sarah

Sister Sarah works in her classroom. (Photo by Erik M. Lunsford elunsford@post-dispatch.com) Sister Sarah Heger cut through a tray of raw chicken with a knife and let her fifth-grade class of girls squirm for only a second. A science exam loomed, and the petite nun didn’t waste time preparing them. She wrangled the meat...