News Archives - Page 907 of 1758 - Archdiocese of Baltimore

News

January 19, 2012

Group hopes education helps undercut violence in Darfur

NYALA, Sudan – An ecumenical relief organization working in Sudan’s Darfur region is hoping to undercut violence by educating displaced people about human rights and peace. For instance, the organization – Darfur Emergency Response Operation – has helped displaced women build more efficient cooking stoves, lessening the number of trips they have to make out...

Catholic ReviewNews

January 19, 2012

Governor’s budget includes textbook funding and aid to poor

Even as Gov. Martin J. O’Malley cut millions of dollars in spending when he outlined his $13 billion operating budget Jan. 19, he spared several funding priorities Catholic leaders had been lobbying to protect.

Catholic ReviewNews

January 19, 2012

Vatican publishing house: New page, new director, new ideas

VATICAN CITY – With a new director at the helm, the Vatican publishing house is turning a new page.

Catholic ReviewNews

January 19, 2012

Catholic leaders see hope for health reform even after Brown election

WASHINGTON – The election of Republican Scott Brown to fill the U.S. Senate seat held since 1962 by Democrat Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts does not mean Catholic leaders will abandon efforts to achieve much-needed health reform.

Catholic ReviewNews

January 19, 2012

Supporters pray for beatification of Father Solanus Casey

DETROIT – Donald Veryser, a member of Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish in suburban Grosse Pointe Woods, was among the many supporters of Capuchin Father Solanus Casey’s cause for sainthood who came to St. Bonaventure Monastery in Detroit July 28-29 to pray for his beatification.

Catholic ReviewNews

January 19, 2012

Quake leaves Haitian church mourning loss of religious young and old

WASHINGTON – As they help Haitians rebuild destroyed homes and mourn lost relatives, Catholic Church workers in Haiti are grieving for members of their own “families” killed or severely injured in the magnitude 7 earthquake Jan. 12.

Catholic ReviewNews

January 19, 2012

Priest heads south after lengthy career in western Maryland

After his father died, Father Gerald F. LaPorta suggested to his mother, “Let’s go someplace where it’s warmer.”

Catholic ReviewNews

January 19, 2012

Religious orders lose youngest members in Haiti quake

ROME – As religious orders mobilized to help the suffering people of Haiti, many of them had people sitting by computer terminals in Rome waiting to hear news about their youngest members.

Catholic ReviewNews

January 19, 2012

Ecology: Key to teaching young people about Christian morality

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI believes ecology could hold the key to teaching young people about Christian morality.

Catholic ReviewNews

January 19, 2012

CIA agent killed in bomb blast remembered as loving husband, father

ARLINGTON, Va. – Harold Brown Jr., one of seven CIA agents killed in a bombing in Afghanistan Dec. 30, was a loving and involved husband and father, said a fellow parishioner at Brown’s Virginia Catholic parish.

Catholic ReviewNews

January 19, 2012

Curriculum mapping helps schools, teachers

Catholic elementary schools throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore are keeping precise track of what’s happening in the classroom thanks to a computerized process known as curriculum mapping.

Catholic ReviewNews

January 19, 2012

Water conflicts volatile but can be resolved peacefully, panel says

WASHINGTON – As the world’s population grows and the amount and sources of potable water shrink, the number of conflicts over water access and usage is likely to increase, said members of a panel on water rights that convened Jan. 6 in Washington.

Catholic ReviewNews

1 … 905 906 907 908 909 … 1,758