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January 19, 2012

Religious face identity challenges, say speakers at Rome assembly

ROME - Unprecedented social and cultural changes around the world are challenging the church’s religious orders to re-examine their identity and their prophetic role, speakers at a Rome conference said.
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January 19, 2012

St. John Regional teachers knit caps for babies

Avid knitter Joan D’Loughy has made hats, scarves, baby sweaters and other simple projects in the five years since she took up the hobby. However, when she discovered that she could use her knitting skills to help babies in need, she cast on once again – this time for charity.
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January 19, 2012

Father Brooksbank dies at 35

Father Kevin W. Brooksbank, a 35-year-old associate pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary in Baynesville, died May 25 at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson after battling a viral infection and kidney failure.
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January 19, 2012

Palestinian Christians wary about Obama’s proposals for peace

JERUSALEM - U.S. President Barack Obama’s call for Israeli and Palestinian states based on Israel’s 1967 borders met with a largely wary response from Palestinian Christians.
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January 19, 2012

In her last school stop, first lady Laura Bush visits Catholic school

BETHESDA – First lady Laura Bush, who has visited countless schools in the United States and foreign countries, made her last school visit Jan. 13 to Little Flower School, a Catholic school in the Washington suburb of Bethesda.
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January 19, 2012

Retired Sydney bishop doesn’t want fight with U.S. bishops over book

WASHINGTON – A retired Australian bishop who has been asked by several U.S. bishops to cancel his book tour said he stands behind his critique of authoritarian and sexual abuses in the church but does not want a battle.
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January 19, 2012

Seven Loyola hospital employees donate kidneys to strangers

MAYWOOD, Ill. – Loyola University Medical Center is a very giving place to work – so much so that within the past year, seven female employees donated their kidneys as part of the center’s Pay-It-Forward Kidney Transplant Program.
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January 19, 2012

Religious life through the centuries

From the days of the ancient desert monks to new forms of community today, religious life has always responded to the challenges of the times. Here’s a sampling of the major moments in the history of religious life.
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January 19, 2012

Sisters Academy celebrates first graduating class

The size of the first graduating class of Sisters Academy of Baltimore, Lansdowne, is the same size of some Catholic families. Although the 10 girls are not all Catholic nor are they sisters, their connection over the past four years since the school opened has been like a family, more distinctively – a sisterhood.
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January 19, 2012

Catholic runs across US to pray, encourage others to put trust in God

SMITHTON, Pa. - Jeff Grabosky dipped his hands in the Pacific Ocean Jan. 20 then started running toward the East Coast where in late May, he plans to jump into the Atlantic Ocean.
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January 19, 2012

Lobby Night is Feb. 16

Catholics can make their voices heard on a wide range of legislative issues during the 25th-annual Lobby Night, held in Annapolis Feb. 16.
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January 19, 2012

Vatican says 2005 document on gays applies to all seminaries

VATICAN CITY – In a clarification approved by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican said its 2005 document prohibiting the admission of homosexuals to the priesthood applies to all types of seminaries.
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