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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

Volunteer spirit thrives in St. Francis parishioner

Morgan State University senior Cina Morris thinks her mother overextends herself with her never-ending volunteer projects. But St. Francis Xavier, Baltimore, parishioner Delease Ryce says it’s a labor of love that brings her too much joy to slow down.
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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

Pope creates 23 cardinals

VATICAN CITY – In a liturgy that emphasized the church’s cultural diversity and its unity of mission, Pope Benedict XVI created 23 new cardinals from 14 countries.
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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

Bishops: adoption agencies should apply for grants

LONDON – The bishops of England and Wales have encouraged Catholic adoption agencies to apply jointly for government grants to help them find ways of staying open despite new gay rights legislation.
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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

Pope urges international aid for victims of cyclone

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI urged international assistance for Bangladesh, where thousands were killed in one of the worst cyclones in the country’s history.
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