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January 19, 2012

Weinberg Foundation: $3.5 million to Catholic Schools

A Baltimore-based Jewish foundation is pledging $3.5 million to Baltimore City Catholic schools in an effort to boost enrollment and attract even more financial support for urban-based Catholic education. In a Dec. 14 event at the Catholic Center in Baltimore, Cardinal William H. Keeler and Donn Weinberg of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation announced...
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January 19, 2012

Treatment 2.0: Catholic AIDS workers say they already have tight budget

VIENNA – Large reductions in funding for AIDS work around the world are putting at risk the lives of people who depend on faith-based organizations for care, treatment and support, warned Catholic activists and others participating in the XVIII International AIDS Conference.
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January 19, 2012

Moving in fast forward: 2006 saw acceleration of Benedict’s papacy

The year 2006 saw an acceleration of Pope Benedict XVI's pontificate, highlighted by publication of the pope's first encyclical, four foreign trips and important appointments at the Vatican and around the world. For what was supposed to be a pared-back papacy, it was a busy 12 months.
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January 19, 2012

Weary of war in Afghanistan

Just as Sean Costello (CR, June 24) “Veteran displeased with Magliano” was displeased with Tony Magliano’s column, I am displeased with his letter. Contrary to what Costello states, the majority of American taxpayers are weary of our nine years in Afghanistan. Killing innocent civilians and getting ourselves killed and wounded have not as yet produced...
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January 19, 2012

Vatican spokesman says pope did not ask Kissinger to be his adviser

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI does not have a foreign affairs advisory board, and he has not asked former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to become one of his advisers, the Vatican spokesman said.
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January 19, 2012

Mercy Medical Center featured on cable series

Television viewers around the country will get a chance to see the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Mercy Medical Center in action this summer.
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January 19, 2012

St. Theodosius the Cenobiarch

St. Theodosius the Cenobiarch was born in Cappadocia (present-day Turkey) in 423. He left home so that he could follow God. According to legend, he worked with St. Longinus in Jerusalem and led a church in the Bethlehem area. The hermit gathered followers and built a monastery. He also built a hospital and a hospice....
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January 19, 2012

Mount de Sales to hold prayer service for student injured in Uganda bombing

Mount de Sales student Emily Kerstetter and her grandmother were injured during a July 11 bombing in Uganda.
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January 19, 2012

Blessed Jordan of Saxony

Blessed Jordan of Saxony was born in the year 1190. He met St. Dominic, the founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), while at the University of Paris around 1219. He joined the Dominicans in 1220, and he was elected master general of the order after St. Dominic died in 1222. Blessed Jordan, a great...
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January 19, 2012

Love blossoms at College of Notre Dame’s Marikle Chapel

Halfway through her junior year at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Meghan Walton Young was despondent after her boyfriend abruptly ended their relationship.
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January 19, 2012

St. Maximilian

St. Maximilian was born in the year 274 to a Roman army veteran. He was later drafted into the Roman army, but he was a conscientious objector. He did not want to serve because his faith prohibited it. St. Maximilian was martyred in 295 for refusing to serve in the army.
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January 19, 2012

Church advocates push countries to begin to overcome ‘resource curse’

HUANCAYO, Peru – With its fields of potatoes and artichokes, the Mantaro Valley in the central Andes region of Junin is known as Peru’s breadbasket.
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