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January 19, 2012

Judge grants stay to activist British brother expelled from Peru

LIMA, Peru – A Peruvian judge gave a British missionary a temporary stay on a government order expelling him from the country.
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January 19, 2012

Christmas still brings joy

JERUSALEM (CNS) -- Once again Christmas in the Holy Land is faced with "circumstances of death and frustration," but the holiday still brings joy and announces salvation to all, said Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem in his traditional Christmas message. Though the West Bank city of Bethlehem should be a city of peace it...
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January 19, 2012

Mount Carmel student, basketball player, reported murdered

Tom Rose began to hear rumors July 5 that 17-year-old John Crowder had been shot in a Northeast Baltimore City yard.
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January 19, 2012

Baltimore cardinal condemns ‘revisionist history’ of Holocaust

Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore condemned "revisionist history" of the Holocaust, the systematic efforts by Nazis during World War II to do away with Jews also known as the Shoah, a Hebrew word meaning devastation or catastrophe. The cardinal took particular exception to a Dec. 11-12 conference in Iran during which speakers "sought to...
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January 19, 2012

Testifying and Evangelizing

Last week in the midst of the heat and crowds at the African American Heritage Festival at Camden Yards stood black Catholics spreading the good news of Jesus and sharing the inspirational message that “God is light and in Him there is no darkness or confusion at all ( 1 John 1:5).” Wearing T-shirts that...
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January 19, 2012

St. Vincent volunteer encourages gift giving

Full of energy and with the gift of gab, St. Joseph, Cockeysville, parishioner Geri Olsen is the perfect volunteer for St. Vincent Center in Timonium. In the blink of an eye, the 65-year-old can start up a conversation with someone and have them making a donation to St. Vincent, a 70¬ bed residential facility for...
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January 19, 2012

Maryland pregnancy center fights county rule on what it must tell pregnant women

SILVER SPRING, Md. - As director of a Catholic pregnancy center in Maryland, Mariana Vera feels a strong personal commitment to the young, mostly Hispanic women who are its clients.
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January 19, 2012

St. Elizabeth educators help special education school in Qatar

Since its founding 45 years ago by the Franciscan Sisters of Baltimore, St. Elizabeth School in Baltimore has developed into one of Maryland’s most respected schools for students with special needs.
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January 19, 2012

Gulf residents live with the unknown about long-term effects of spill

SCHRIEVER, La. – Fishing, swimming and interacting at all with the water off the coast of Louisiana is off-limits to residents, and their livelihoods and quality of life are suffering, said the pastor of Our Lady of the Isle Parish in Grand Isle.
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January 19, 2012

St. Marcellus I

St. Marcellus I became pope in 308, during the end of Diocletian’s persecutions of Christians. The pope attempted to welcome back to the church those who had been afraid to practice their faith for fear of death. He also had to build up the clergy after many had been killed and others had been practicing...
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January 19, 2012

Camp St. Vincent offers fun, enrichment for homeless children

When Lynette Voss resided in a homeless shelter during the summers of 2008 and 2009, the Baltimore resident wanted her children to have something to do during the day, as opposed to sitting around the shelter idly.
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January 19, 2012

St. Margaret of Cortona

St. Margaret of Cortona was born in Tuscany in 1247. After an early life of sins, she went to seek asylum with the Friars Minor at Cortona. She became a penitent and nursed the sick and poor. She joined the Third Order of St. Francis, and she later formed a group called “The Poverelle” (the...
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