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January 19, 2012

Catholics mark Respect Life Sunday Oct. 7

Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore will take a very public stand in support of the sanctity of life Oct. 7, Respect Life Sunday, when they gather for prayer in churches and along Maryland roadsides.
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January 19, 2012

Focus on the good, share the gifts of the spirit

So, happy New Year and Thanksgiving! What? This is September. Did the heat this summer finally fry my brain? (I might be the last to notice!)
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January 19, 2012

Vatican dismisses English woman’s Marian claims

LONDON – The Vatican has dismissed the claims of a woman in England who says Mary has visited her outside her home for more than 20 years. Ruling that her claims are “highly questionable,” the Vatican also has refused to approve the statutes of the community she founded.
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January 19, 2012

California bishops offer parents guidelines to opt out of public school programs

SAN FRANCISCO – The California Catholic bishops’ conference is alerting parents and guardians of public school children that they have the right to “opt out” of many influences and classes that contradict their family’s values – from instruction in how to perform sexual acts to the ins and outs of witchcraft and the conjuring of...
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January 19, 2012

Beans & Bread to celebrate 30 years

When amateur actor and former Benedictine priest Benet Hanlon began working in a Fells Point theater in the late 1970s, he noticed a number of homeless men along the then-scrappy waterfront streets, got to know several of them and eventually rented a small row house on Aliceanna Street in 1977 in an effort to feed...
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January 19, 2012

Bishop Hubbard, Christian leaders welcome new Middle East peace talks

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace joined 27 other Christian leaders in welcoming the renewal of direct peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders brokered by the United States.
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January 19, 2012

Pope praises late Vietnamese cardinal

VATICAN CITY – As church officials prepared to open the sainthood cause for Cardinal Francois Nguyen Van Thuan, Pope Benedict XVI praised the late Vietnamese cardinal as a “singular prophet of Christian hope.”
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January 19, 2012

Catholic newspaper becomes Poland’s top-selling weekly

WARSAW, Poland – A national Catholic newspaper has become Poland’s top-selling weekly, outstripping its secular competitors.
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January 19, 2012

Eight Catholic schools could become charter schools

WASHINGTON – Because of growing deficits and declining enrollments faced by its center-city Catholic schools, the Archdiocese of Washington announced a proposal Sept. 7 to reconfigure a consortium made up of the 12 schools. According to the proposal, four of the 12 Catholic schools currently in the Center City Consortium would make up a new...
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January 19, 2012

Knock at door led to Cuban priest’s 15 years of work with AIDS patients

HAVANA – A young man knocked on the door of the Catholic parish and asked for soap.
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January 19, 2012

Sticks down: Cubs drop first league game

A disappointing start to an otherwise hopeful season, The Catholic High School of Baltimore Cubs dropped their first field hockey league game on Sept. 6 to St. Timothy’s, Stevenson, 1-0 in overtime on a penalty flick. The team is coached by Anne Winters, a theology teacher at the school, who brings knowledge and a big...
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January 19, 2012

Haitian institutions that took in quake victims buckling under strain

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Catholic schools and orphanages in the Haitian countryside that took in thousands of children displaced by the January earthquake are buckling under the increased financial strain, administrators say.
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