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January 19, 2012

The power of our words

This summer I taught a one-week course at the Institute of Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University in New Orleans. The topic was “Understanding the Prophetic and Empowering Role of Leadership in the Black Community.” Students explored the prophetic call to leadership as evidenced in several stories from scripture. Additionally, discussions referred to the invitation...
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January 19, 2012

Parishioners help support tower in Kenya

For almost 10 years, the people of St. Stephen, Bradshaw, have had a special relationship with the parishioners of St. Steven in Mombasa, Kenya. So when St. Steven could only finish two floors of a church addition they were building, they called for help from their friends across the ocean. The parishioners of St. Stephen...
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January 19, 2012

Losing out to secularism

Some Catholics have abandoned Catholic social action initiatives for pluralistic social action initiatives based on tolerance, compromise and government solutions to social problems. For example, Network, a National Catholic social justice lobby, favors a distinctly pluralistic identity. In contrast the Knights of Columbus favors a distinctly Catholic identity.
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January 19, 2012

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton expands

For almost five years the parishioners of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Crofton, have been waiting for an expansion and renovation of their 26 year-old church. After a few setbacks, construction has begun on a two-story addition with the first floor dedicated for the youth of the parish and the second floor for the new parish...
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January 19, 2012

Calvert Hall graduate honored for work

The American Nuclear Society honored Calvert Hall High School graduate Mike Kansler with the Utility Leadership Award at the 2010 American Nuclear Society Utility Working Conference in early August. Kansler, a 30-year industry veteran and a member of Calvert Hall’s class of 1972, served as the president, CEO and chief nuclear officer of Entergy, the...
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January 19, 2012

Prime meridian in Vatican Gardens

VATICAN CITY – Although the Global Positioning System has made meridians obsolete in mapmaking, a group of geographers used the GPS to mark the exact spot where the old prime meridian of Italy passed through the Vatican. Standing at the end of a technologically guaranteed straight line of flower pots, the geographers and Vatican officials...
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January 19, 2012

Richardson to coordinate pastoral leadership

Paulist Father John E. Hurley, executive director of the department of evangelization for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, announced the appointment of Mae Richardson as the new coordinator of pastoral leadership formation.
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January 19, 2012

Lent a time of inner renewal

ROME – Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholics to rediscover the traditional “penitential weapons” of prayer, fasting and works of charity in order to make Lent a time of inner renewal. He made the comments during an Ash Wednesday Mass Feb. 21 at the Basilica of Santa Sabina in central Rome. The liturgy began with a...
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January 19, 2012

Eyewitness account of the third National Gathering for Black Catholic Women

A grey Friday morning, foretelling the storms of the weekend suggests the mood of the women silently boarding the bus whose destination is Charlotte, N.C. Servant women weary from the Gospel work, which includes service to parish, family and community.
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January 19, 2012

Conference calls for healing

How does faith call us to bring hope and healing to the world? Discuss this topic March 12-16 at Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, when they host the third annual Callings Conference: Bearers of Hope and Healing. Callings is a program for the theological exploration of Christian vocation.
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January 19, 2012

Hundreds gather on Chicago beaches to pray for end to violence

CHICAGO – The sunrise was invisible, but the hundreds of people who showed up at Masses and prayer services on five South Side beaches in the early morning Aug. 21 took it on faith.
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January 19, 2012

Women deserve better than abortion

When Speaker Nancy Pelosi proclaimed last month that this would be a Congress that remembers the children, I couldn’t help but think that this smart, savvy grandmother of 6, who now wields the most powerful gavel in the world, was forgetting someone – millions of unborn children.
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