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January 19, 2012

Mount St. Joseph alum returns from Japan after quake

Chris Godish calls it the most terrifying experience of his life. The 32-year-old English teacher and Mount St. Joseph alum was working with students at a middle school in Takahagi City, Japan, when the March 11 magnitude-9 earthquake struck. Godish couldn’t stay on his feet as he, other teachers and students were tossed by the...
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January 19, 2012

Christ’s birth: Love made visible

I had a rather rotund friend in college who loved life, loved God and definitely loved food. He would often say as we ate in our cafeteria, “Food is God’s love made edible.” In fact, he even wrote his senior thesis on the relationship between food and theology (Banquet Feast of the Lamb, for example)....
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January 19, 2012

WHY CATHOLIC?

Holy Orders: A Sacrament at the Service of Communion The memory of Saturday, June 26, 2004 will be with me forever as a special day. It was the day of my priestly ordination at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. I remember promising respect and obedience to Cardinal Keeler and his successors as Archbishop of...
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January 19, 2012

Dolan: Bishops’ commitment to address clergy sex abuse remains firm

WASHINGTON – The U.S. bishops’ procedures for addressing child sex abuse remain “strongly in place” and the bishops remain “especially firm” in their commitment “to remove permanently from public ministry any priest who committed such an intolerable offense,” said the president of the U.S. bishops’ conference.
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January 19, 2012

Mount St. Mary’s institution now a college basketball Hall of Famer

The national collegiate record 49 seasons Jim Phelan spent coaching men’s basketball at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg are part of the game’s lore.
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January 19, 2012

Britain repeals act criminalizing blasphemy

LONDON – The criminal offense of blasphemy against Christianity has been abolished in England and Wales. The House of Lords voted to support a government amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill to scrap the act, which dates back more than 300 years.
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January 19, 2012

Haitian soccer players get their kicks despite being amputees

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Even though it was just practice, Chery Sequel shot the ball, got down on his knee, pointed a finger and shouted “Scooooooooore!”
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January 19, 2012

Life changes for first-time mom

There was no question about it. When Amanda and Nick Barrick married in April 2007, they were ready to begin a family.
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January 19, 2012

Latin America’s great mission starts to take shape

LIMA, Peru – The idea of a “great continental mission,” which proved elusive when the bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean met in Aparecida, Brazil, last year, is slowly taking shape, said the prelate responsible for its implementation.
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January 19, 2012

Cuba releases pro-life activist, but sentences U.S. contractor to prison

WASHINGTON – Cuba released a renowned pro-life activist and political dissident, but sent mixed signals the next day when courts sentenced an American contractor to 15 years in prison for taking telecommunications equipment into the country.
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January 19, 2012

Mount St. Mary’s Seminary produces another bishop

WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has named Monsignor Barry C. Knestout, vicar for administration for the Washington Archdiocese, as an auxiliary bishop of Washington.
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January 19, 2012

Lawmakers urged to support BOAST

ANNAPOLIS – Arguing that nonpublic schools in Maryland face dire increases in tuition that are forcing the closure of schools, a leader of the Maryland Catholic Conference (MCC) urged state lawmakers to pass a bill rewarding businesses for supporting both public and nonpublic schools.
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