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January 19, 2012

Father Drinan, ex-congressman, dead at 86

WASHINGTON – Jesuit Father Robert F. Drinan, the first Catholic priest to vote in the U.S. Congress, received praise and censure during his lifetime for his active involvement in politics. Father Drinan, 86, died Jan. 28 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, where he had been treated for pneumonia and congestive heart failure for the...
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop Hannan, Baltimore assistant pastor and Kennedy counselor, dies at 98

NEW ORLEANS – Retired Archbishop Philip M. Hannan of New Orleans, a World War II paratroop chaplain who befriended and secretly counseled John F. Kennedy during and after his historic run for the White House as the first U.S. Catholic president, died Sept. 29 at age 98.
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January 19, 2012

Paraguayan president, a former bishop, faces more paternity claims

ASUNCION, Paraguay – Just one week after Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo admitted to fathering a boy while he was still a Catholic bishop, Mr. Lugo faced two more paternity claims.
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January 19, 2012

Divvying up chores can lead to wedded bliss

Brian and Laurie Henderson have a simple rule when it comes to divvying up household chores: if one doesn’t like a certain task, the other will take care of it. After 17 years of marriage, it’s worked so well that the parishioners of St. John in Westminster are convinced their commitment to domestic decorum has...
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January 19, 2012

Mandate one musical setting

Regarding “Parishes introduce new settings” (CR, Sept. 15), I do not disagree with the view that, in an archdiocese as diverse as ours, “it would be catastrophic to only have had one or two musical settings of the new translation to choose from.”
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January 19, 2012

New Catholic Review editor brings three decades of experience

When 49-year-old Christopher Gunty takes the helm of The Catholic Review as associate publisher and editor, July 1, the Chicago-area native will bring with him nearly three decades of experience in Catholic journalism.
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January 19, 2012

‘Angel of the garbage dump’ dies in crash

WASHINGTON – Hanley Denning, known in Guatemala as “the angel of the garbage dump” because she helped poor children escape garbage picking as a livelihood, died in a car crash in Guatemala. Five days after her Jan. 18 death at age 36, a documentary featuring Ms. Denning was nominated for an Oscar. Ms. Denning died...
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January 19, 2012

Fight against federal law will undermine marriage, says archbishop

WASHINGTON - New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, told President Barack Obama in a Sept. 20 letter that his administration’s fight against the Defense of Marriage Act will undermine marriage and create a serious breach of church-state relations.
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January 19, 2012

Pabst scholarship fund created at Monsignor Slade in Glen Burnie

Dorothy Pabst was called “Dots” by most, loved her row home in Fells Point and detested modern technology. She cared for Alzheimer’s patients in her own old age, and before that, was devoted to her only sibling, Father Louis Henry Pabst.
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January 19, 2012

Gaels get it done in 2007

Top-ranked Mount St. Joseph High School, Baltimore, cruised to another Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Indoor Track and Field championship title Jan. 19 at Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex, Landover. This was the Gaels’ ninth title in 11 seasons, their first since 2005. After handily defeating their league competition by an average of 40 points...
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January 19, 2012

‘Radically new and unprecedented attack on religious freedom’

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien is urging the Obama administration to back down from a pending health mandate that he believes violates the conscience rights of Catholic health care providers and others.
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January 19, 2012

Catholics generally optimistic about church, Zogby poll finds

WASHINGTON – U.S. Catholics are generally optimistic about their church, according to the 2009 Le Moyne-Zogby Contemporary Catholic Trends survey released April 9.
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