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January 19, 2012

Traditionalist order not ready to accept Vatican II, superior says

VATICAN CITY – The head of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X said his order is not ready to accept the Second Vatican Council, which the Vatican has set as a condition for full reintegration in the church.
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January 19, 2012

Arts get a major boost at Hagerstown school

HAGERSTOWN – As 15-year-old Charlotte Riggs prepared to rehearse a show tune in a room attached to Thomas McFarland’s classroom, Mr. McFarland stopped what he was doing and crept beside the half-open door.
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January 19, 2012

Mestizaje and multicultural religious education

Two of my favorite examples that depict God as an artisan forming his people are found in the pages of the Old Testament and in the writings of an early church father. In Chapter 18 of the Book of Jeremiah God identifies himself as the potter and the people of Israel as the clay in...
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January 19, 2012

Church’s investment losses mirror rest of nation, financier says

WASHINGTON – The losses incurred by Catholic institutions in the stock market since last autumn are roughly the same as the hits taken by other investors, according to a financier who estimates he gives investment advice to more U.S. dioceses than any other firm.
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January 19, 2012

Alaska bishop named to head Montana diocese

WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop Michael W. Warfel of Juneau, Alaska, as the bishop of Great Falls-Billings, Mont.
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January 19, 2012

Papal foundation plans to expand assistance to AIDS patients

VATICAN CITY – A papal foundation dedicated to AIDS patients may expand its services to include a global program of distributing anti-AIDS drugs, a Vatican official said.
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January 19, 2012

Physicians take legal, educational steps to defend conscience rights

WASHINGTON – To combat what they see as threats to the conscience rights of health care professionals who oppose abortion, the Catholic Medical Association and other organizations are taking both legal and educational steps.
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January 19, 2012

States hold off on executions

WASHINGTON – It may only continue for a matter of months, but an effective moratorium on executions has spread across the United States while the Supreme Court considers whether the most commonly used combination of drugs for lethal injections constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
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January 19, 2012

Vatican official rejects criticism in wake of Irish judicial report

VATICAN CITY – A leading church official rejected harsh criticism of the Vatican in the wake of an Irish judicial report on the handling of priestly sex abuse cases.
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January 19, 2012

Cardinal Egan emphasized schools, vocations as archbishop of New York

WASHINGTON – Cardinal Edward M. Egan, who will step down as New York archbishop with the installation of Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, made Catholic schools and vocations a focus of his nine-year tenure in New York.
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January 19, 2012

Pastor of three city parishes resigns

In a private meeting Nov. 8 at the Catholic Center in downtown Baltimore with Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien and Bishop Denis J. Madden, urban vicar, Father Raymond D. Martin was asked to resign his position as pastor of the Catholic Community of South Baltimore Nov. 8 because of violations of archdiocesan pol¬icy and canon law.
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January 19, 2012

What would Jesus do? Latin Americans look at extractive industries

LIMA, Peru – When Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo first considered the high lead levels in the blood of children living in the Peruvian highland city of La Oroya, he asked himself, “What would Jesus do?”
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