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January 19, 2012

Men learn about daily lives of priests, seminarians

Chris Cook’s grandfather and uncle both thought about becoming priests. Each joined the seminary before falling in love and getting married. Now at the age of 13, Chris feels a calling to the priesthood and he thinks the third time could be a charm.
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January 19, 2012

Delegates deny using BOAST as bargaining chip

Delegates James Malone Jr. and Steven DeBoy Sr. are denying reports they threatened to derail a business tax credit benefiting non-public and public schools as a way of pressuring Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien to keep open the “more successful” Catholic schools slated for closure.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop says morale is high among chaplains, soldiers

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Morale is high among priests and soldiers serving in Iraq, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services told Providence diocesan priests gathered March 21 at Our Lady of Providence Seminary. The archbishop noted that, while there has been a decline in the number of priests serving as...
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January 19, 2012

Gibbons’ community copes with consolidation plan

Christian Jacobs studied the class ring he had received just months ago, identifying him as a member of The Cardinal Gibbons School’s Class of 2011. “It’s for a year we’ll never have,” Jacobs said March 6. “This is a heartbreaker.”
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January 19, 2012

Pope looks for bridge to tradition

VATICAN CITY – Sometime soon, Pope Benedict XVI is expected to broaden permission to use the Tridentine Mass, a long-standing request of traditionalists who favor the rite used before the Second Vatican Council. The move is aimed at ending a liturgical dispute which has simmered for more than 20 years. In the process, it could...
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January 19, 2012

Pope’s brother apologizes to abuse victims at his former school

WARSAW, Poland – The brother of Pope Benedict XVI apologized to child victims of sexual abuse at his former school even though he said he was unaware of the alleged incidents.
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January 19, 2012

Ongoing history

MENLO PARK, Calif. – Even though the average age of religious-order priests, sisters and brothers serving in the United States is increasing and their numbers are declining, don’t conclude religious communities are dying out, a well-known scholar said during a recent national meeting in Menlo Park. Instead, think of consecrated life as an “ongoing history”...
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January 19, 2012

New report shows economic benefits of Catholic schools

A newly released report by the Sage Policy Group, Inc. has found that Catholic school students in the Archdiocese of Baltimore produce higher test scores, are more likely to graduate and are more likely to attend and graduate from college than their public school counterparts.
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January 19, 2012

Knights make a difference in Iraq

While on his second tour in Iraq, U.S. Army Maj. David Anthony had no Knights of Columbus council to join. But by the time the St. Francis de Sales, Abingdon, parishioner left the Middle East 10 months later, the Camp Victory Knights of Columbus Round Table in Baghdad was established and growing. Maj. Anthony joined...
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January 19, 2012

Rockville Centre Diocese enacts plan to ensure its ‘financial health’

ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. – To “ensure the financial health” of the Rockville Centre Diocese for the future, the diocese has put in place a strategy to meet a number of fiscal challenges, said Bishop William F. Murphy.
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January 19, 2012

Response to ICE raids ongoing

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has conducted raids in recent weeks at workplaces across the U.S. to round up workers who are in the country illegally. In two communities where raids took place March 6 – South Bend, Ind., and New Bedford, Mass. – members of the Catholic community and the...
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January 19, 2012

Canadians proud that one of their own will be canonized a saint

MONTREAL – Just 73 years after his death, Brother Andre Bessette will become the first Canadian-born man elevated to sainthood.
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