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January 19, 2012

Texas priest urges consumers to support local fishing communities

WASHINGTON - A priest who oversees a Catholic ministry to people who make a living from the sea said consumers should know that shrimp in Texas has not been tainted by the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and urged them to support the local seafood industry.
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January 19, 2012

U.S. ecumenical ties strong despite challenges to Christian unity

WASHINGTON – More people profess Catholicism in the United States than any other single religion. There are 64.4 million Catholics, representing close to 22 percent of the nation’s total population.
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January 19, 2012

Eagle of the Cross honorees “hard-wired for God”

Julia Schmidt looks at serving others as a natural extension of Catholicism.
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January 19, 2012

Pope: Polarizing Bolivia will not bring economic well-being

VATICAN CITY – Welcoming the first Bolivian ambassador named by President Evo Morales, Pope Benedict XVI said polarizing Bolivian society will not bring the justice and economic well-being for which all Bolivians hope.
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January 19, 2012

Maryland Catholic parish rooting for one of its own in World Cup

DAMASCUS, Md. – When the U.S. men’s national soccer team takes the field in South Africa June 12 to face England in the World Cup, parishioners from St. Paul Parish in Damascus will be rooting for one of their own.
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January 19, 2012

Easter makes sense of life

Holy Week and Easter, with their powerful story of death and resurrection, are especially poignant this year. In a period of just over a month, three priests of the Archdiocese of Baltimore have died: Father Chris Carney (whom I have already written about), Father Wayne Funk, pastor of St. John the Evangelist in Frederick, and...
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January 19, 2012

Mount de Sales blesses ground for new convent

CATONSVILLE – At a time when convents are shuttering across the country, leaders of Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville announced plans June 4 for a new convent that will house the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia who work in the all-girls school.
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January 19, 2012

Patriarch sends strong message to Palestinian Christians

JERUSALEM – A Palestinian Christian must be prepared to witness to the faith by submitting to daily difficulties “or even by sacrificing his or her life,” said Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem in a pastoral letter marking the end of his patriarchal ministry.
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January 19, 2012

Pope says bishop’s death in Turkey not political, won’t halt dialogue

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO CYPRUS - Pope Benedict XVI said he was deeply saddened by the murder of the president of the Turkish bishops’ conference, but he said Bishop Luigi Padovese’s death should not cast a shadow over his visit to the eastern Mediterranean or over Catholic-Muslim dialogue.
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January 19, 2012

Former Franciscan seminary head calls attack ‘monstrous’

JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian gunman's attack on a Jewish seminary was a "monstrous" atrocity, said a former director of Jerusalem's Franciscan seminary. Father Artemio Vitores, vicar of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, told Catholic News Service he has lived through five wars and two Palestinian uprisings in the Holy Land, but the attack...
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January 19, 2012

U.S. Jesuit priest to take reins of Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome

WASHINGTON – For Jesuit Father James McCann, it all started with taking a course in the Russian language while in high school.
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January 19, 2012

Pope’s arrival in U.S. will be ‘a moment of grace’

WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has shared his two encyclicals on hope and love with the world so the faithful will “grow in their experience of God,” said a former Vatican diplomat who now heads the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services.
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