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January 19, 2012

Reflecting on 40 years of priesthood

Forty is a number of biblical significance – Jesus spent 40 days in the desert and for 40 years the people of Israel wandered in the desert.
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January 19, 2012

Priest feels frustration, sees hope in villages high in Peru’s Andes

PAMPAROMAS, Peru – Father David Johnson viewed the barren mountains towering over his parish with a mixture of sadness, frustration and hope.
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January 19, 2012

100-year-old parishioner looks forward to the future

Following a special Mass at St. Gregory the Great, Baltimore, in honor of her 100th birthday, Ella Byrd told well-wishers she may have lived through a century of history, but looks forward to events in the future that one day will be deemed historic. “As I look back, I see that we’ve made a lot...
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January 19, 2012

Pope Benedict beatifies Pope John Paul ‘because of his faith’

VATICAN CITY - “John Paul II is blessed because of his faith - a strong, generous and apostolic faith,” Pope Benedict XVI said May 1 just minutes after formally beatifying his predecessor.
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January 19, 2012

Jan. 1 is the feast of Mary, Mother of God

January 1 marks the feast of the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God. The holy day of obligation falls on a Thursday this year. According to the Dictionary of the Liturgy, “this feast recognized Mary as the physical parent of Christ, the God-Man, defined at the Council of Ephesus in the fifth century.
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January 19, 2012

Memorial dinner set to honor the late Bob Flynn

Remembered for his love of basketball and his zest for life, the late Bob Flynn will be honored at a memorial dinner on Sept. 15 at McDaniel College where legendary coaches and Flynn’s personal mentors, including Morgan Wooten and Jim Phelan, will be on hand to pay tribute to their friend and colleague.
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January 19, 2012

Inspiring story rescues man from darkest night

While venting about the excruciating pain he had been experiencing from being trampled by a horse at work, Luis realized that the pain throughout his body and the paralysis of his right hand may be permanent. How could he work? How would his wife and two daughters in Guatemala survive? Luis is uninsured and his...
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January 19, 2012

Blair praised for his Yale seminar examining globalization, religion

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Tony Blair has won praise – even from those who have publicly disagreed with him on the Iraq War – for a seminar about the interplay between globalization and religious faith that he just finished teaching this semester at Yale University.
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January 19, 2012

Bishop Pelotte released from hospital

GALLUP, N.M. – Bishop Donald E. Pelotte of Gallup has been released from a Houston hospital that specializes in traumatic brain injuries and is continuing his recuperation in Florida, said a diocesan official.
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January 19, 2012

Personal ordinariate for former Anglicans to reach nearly 1,000

LONDON – The first personal ordinariate created for former Anglicans who decided to enter the Catholic Church will reach almost 1,000 by the end of the Easter Vigil.
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January 19, 2012

Bishops say Zimbabwean president must be forced to step down

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe must be forced to step down, said the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
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January 19, 2012

Body of first bishop of Mississippi exhumed in Baltimore

The first Bishop of Mississippi recently made his final trip from Baltimore to Natchez, Miss. – 155 years after he died in Maryland. Born in Baltimore Oct. 4, 1795 to refugees of St. Domingue (now Haiti), Bishop John J. Chanche, S.S., was ordained a priest in the city in 1819, became the president of St....
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