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January 19, 2012

Pope Benedict places young people at the center of his concerns

VATICAN CITY - The pope gave the students an “A plus.”
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January 19, 2012

‘A dream fulfilled, a vision realized’ 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

Rallying around our youths

In this age of fiscal cutbacks, the hardest hit seems to be to city youth. How can any community risk a reduction of services and outreach to young people, so precious to us especially in the midst of societal challenges that manifest themselves daily? However, youth leaders in our Catholic parishes have invested themselves and...
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January 19, 2012

Federal court criticized for upholding ‘gruesome’ abortion method

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court’s May 20 decision overturning Virginia’s ban on partial-birth abortion thwarts “the clear and common sense of our state’s citizens that a child who is almost entirely born should never be the victim of this brutal practice,” according to the executive director of the Virginia Catholic Conference.
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January 19, 2012

Hitler may have wanted to steal Turin Shroud, church expert says

ROME - The Shroud of Turin was hidden in an Italian Benedictine abbey during World War II in part because church authorities feared Adolf Hitler might want to steal it, according to an official at the monastery.
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January 19, 2012

Memorial Day may have begun with a small, touching moment

The actual origin of Memorial Day, once called Decoration Day, is unclear, except that at first it was most certainly a response to the terrible tragedy of the Civil War in which so many Americans on both sides died on and off the battlefields.
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January 19, 2012

At five-year mark, pope’s teaching mission hits some obstacles

VATICAN CITY –At the five-year mark, two key objectives of Pope Benedict XVI’s pontificate have come into clear focus: creating space for religion in the public sphere and space for God in private lives.
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January 19, 2012

Centuries-old debate still rages over religion’s role in public life

WASHINGTON – Although today’s often vitriolic rhetoric about the role of religion in public life seems like a modern-day affliction, Americans have been debating how to balance tensions between faith and politics for more than 230 years.
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January 19, 2012

Archdiocese to welcome record RCIA harvest at Easter Vigil

Sharon Bogusz sees the hand of God working daily, but never more than when she looks at the number of people fully joining the Catholic faith at Easter Vigil April 3.
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January 19, 2012

Vocations, vocations, vocations!

In his commentary on the Scriptures for the fifth Sunday of Easter, Father Daniel Harrington, S.J., offers the following: “Philip’s request to Jesus (‘Show us the Father and that will be enough for us’) is the occasion for Jesus to express the central and most profound insight in all of John’s Gospel: ‘Whoever has seen...
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January 19, 2012

Recalling a time of grace around Pope John Paul II’s death

VATICAN CITY – The church is preparing to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II, an event that stirred intense emotion, expressions of faith and worldwide attention in April 2005.
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January 19, 2012

Myanmar cyclone victims try to survive amid devastating losses

LEIEINTAN, Myanmar – Pascal Than Hlaing is just one of many who are grieving in Leieintan, a village where only one house is left standing and the Baptist and Catholic churches had their roofs torn open.
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