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March 25, 2011

Catholics in Sendai deliver food to people hit by Japanese disasters

SENDAI, Japan – Despite the post-tsunami chaos, parishioners of Kita Sendai Catholic Church have been busy delivering food aid to victims of the deadly quake and tsunami.
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March 24, 2011

Religious statues at Towson, Overlea parishes vandalized

Statues at Towson’s Immaculate Conception Parish and Overlea’s St. Michael the Archangel Parish were vandalized within two days of each other.
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March 24, 2011

New words to old prayers: A new Roman Missal

As most Catholics are aware by now, the prayers we pray at Mass will sound different beginning Sunday, Nov. 27. That’s because we will be praying from a new edition of the Roman Missal.
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March 24, 2011

VIDEO REPORT: Grieving mother wants abortion clinics better regulated in Maryland

At the start of this year’s legislative session in Annapolis, I had a chance to spend some time with a Baltimore woman who is trying to bring some good out of a profound loss. Stephanie White’s 21-year-old daughter, Denise Crowe, died in 2006 after receiving an overdose of anesthesia while undergoing an abortion. White, who is now raising...
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March 23, 2011

Laws must regulate certain sexual behaviors, Vatican official says

GENEVA – States have the right and duty to regulate people’s behavior, including some sexual behaviors, a Vatican official told the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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March 18, 2011

Iraqi archbishop speaks of ‘near-genocide conditions’

DUNDALK, Ireland – An Iraqi archbishop spoke of “near-genocide conditions” for Christians in his country and said those fleeing violence were straining resources in other parts of the country.
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March 18, 2011

Extraordinary sacrifice

NPR has a truly remarkable story of self-sacrifice.  Valentina Komarov, the widow of Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, kisses a photograph of her dead husband during his official funeral, held in Moscow's Red Square on April 26, 1967. (AFP/Getty Images) So there’s a cosmonaut up in space, circling the globe, convinced he will never make it...
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March 16, 2011

Shock or awe?

Participants in the Maryland March for Life carried yellow balloons with a positive pro-life message. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III) Kay Cole of Holy Family in Davidsonville distributes signs before the Maryland March for Life March 14. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III) Moments before the Maryland March for Life kicked off March 14, I watched a handful...
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March 15, 2011

Theology on Tap kicks off new session in Fells Point

It’s time once again for young adults to get together for some great faith sharing (and maybe a beer or two) at the Greene Turtle in East Baltimore. The Fells Point Theology on Tap group (formerly known as “Tap into Your Faith”) begins its next six-week session tonight. The evening gets going with a ‘Happy Half Hour’ at...
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March 15, 2011

Marlene Lauer on the success of Adore-a-thon

Marlene Lauer, a parishioner of Holy Trinity in Glen Burnie, was a chief organizer of the successful Adore-a-thon March 11. There’s a story about the night at Church of the Crucifixion coming in the March 17 paper. She was kind enough to answer some questions for the blog. Matt: What’s your reaction to how Adore-a-thon...
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March 14, 2011

Father Jesse L. Bolger: Youths provide hope

I’m working on a story for the March 17 edition of The Catholic Review on Adore-a-thon, an event held at Church of the Crucifixion in Glen Burnie this past weekend. I also will have a video in the coming days on the event here at Matt Palmer’s blog. But, I wanted to share some of...
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March 13, 2011

Carney parish explores Bach’s St. Matthew Passion

“Monumental” is the word often used to describe Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. Written to be performed at Good Friday services, the spiritually haunting work retells the story of Christ’s arrest, trial, crucifixion and burial as presented in St. Matthew’s Gospel. It also incorporates other poetry and chorales.  Unveiled in 1727 at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, the composition is...
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