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November 2, 2009

To dialog on predestination, humans must grasp God’s superior ways

In Question Corner (CR, Oct. 29), Father John Dietzen reviews the longstanding (500-year) controversy over predestination, which was mostly a fight between Calvin and Luther, with Catholics hardly involved at all.
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October 30, 2009

Monsignor Hartnett addresses questions about the schools planning process

CR: What do people need to know that perhaps they do not understand? Monsignor Hartnett: It varies from place to place. I think there are people who are disengaged from the process who believe everything is OK in their school, so nothing is going to happen. I think there are people who are in parishes,...
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October 27, 2009

Accident floods St. Paul, Ellicott City

Not long after a wedding concluded Oct. 24 at St. Paul in Ellicott City, the water sprinkler system went off in the back of the church – drenching half the building and causing parish leaders to cancel all the weekend Masses. There was no fire and it is unclear what activated the sprinkler system.
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October 27, 2009

Weigel adds to banging of war drum on Iraq

George Weigel (CR, Oct. 22) takes the Nobel Committee to task for its prize for peace to Barack Obama by attributing to it the belief that “conflict is born of misunderstanding rather than a clash of interests; thus diplomacy is a therapeutic exercise in which soothing words make for peace.” He couples that with the...
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October 27, 2009

Photo caption takes liberty

To needlessly insert (CR, Oct. 15) the words “both Catholic” when referring to Governor Martin O’Malley and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, both well known advocates of abortion, is to profane the meaning of the word Catholic.
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October 27, 2009

Fortunate to have been helped by women religious

I too am seriously concerned by the mandate of the Holy See to investigate women religious in America. This has no relationship to the priest’s Apostolic Visitation of 2005. My understanding is the priests’ Visitation was precipitated by the serious concerns around the sexual abuse scandal and the diminished numbers in the seminaries.In no way...
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October 26, 2009

Police arrest man for stealing from poor box

Anne Arundel County police arrested James Allan Thomas for stealing from a poor box at St. Mary in Annapolis Oct. 16. Thomas, who had previously been banned from church property, was charged with theft, destruction of property and trespassing. Video surveillance showed Thomas opening the poor box and removing cash, according to a police statement.
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October 23, 2009

St. Joseph Medical Center appoints new CEO

Catholic Health Initiatives and the board of St. Joseph Medical Center announced Oct. 20 that Jeffrey K. Norman has been named as the Towson medical center’s new president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Robert Lovell, who has served as interim CEO since June 29.
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October 22, 2009

Norwegian sanctimony, global folly on Nobel

The Norwegian Nobel Committee looked in the mirror, saw the president of the United States, and awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama. One is tempted to vary Rainer Maria Rilke (“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other”) and suggest that this was the meeting of...
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October 9, 2009

Synod spotlight: African cardinal finds candor brings complications

VATICAN CITY – The idea of an African pope captures public imagination, and Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana has discovered that it also brings its own set of problems.
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October 9, 2009

CRS assessing needs as new flooding washes away Philippine homes

WASHINGTON – A new wave of flooding, brought on by the second tropical storm to hit the Philippines within 10 days, has left thousands of people homeless and at least 18 villages underwater, Catholic Relief Services officials reported.
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October 8, 2009

Little Sisters of the Poor minister to Maryland elderly for 140 years

When 87-year-old Alice Jadwigia Armstrong looked up from her hospital bed and saw the smiling face of Sister Lourdes Miranda, she was visibly buoyed by the nun’s presence. Clasping the hand of the Little Sister of the Poor, the white-haired woman seemed transported to the security of her youth.
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