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January 19, 2012

St. Ignatius parishioner’s craft is sign of faith

Late in 2009, Monsignor James M. Barker noticed that one of the parish signs at St. Ignatius, Hickory, had been vandalized. He placed a call to Gardenville Signs’ owner Conley Reems about getting a replacement.
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January 19, 2012

95-year-old is pastoral assistant

PITTSBURGH – At age 95, Joseph Martinelli is a regular at daily Mass at St. Colman Parish in Turtle Creek. In the parish bulletin he’s listed as pastoral assistant, just hinting at the many roles he fills.
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January 19, 2012

Schools increase marketing techniques to combat enrollment drop

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – In dioceses throughout the nation, parents’ unemployment is high and student enrollment in Catholic schools is down. But at St. Philomene School in Sacramento, people aren’t wringing their hands. They’re too busy making their Catholic school work.
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January 19, 2012

U.S. poverty down slightly, uninsured up

WASHINGTON – The number of Americans living in poverty went down slightly last year, according to the Census Bureau’s annual report, but the number of uninsured Americans rose a bit.
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January 19, 2012

Schools honored in internet safety contest

St. Mary Catholic School in Hagerstown won an archdiocesan Internet safety contest in which schools created videos that preached cautious Web-surfing practices.
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January 19, 2012

Dank dungeon for common criminals

VATICAN CITY – For the first time in a decade, summer tourists could make their way down steep stone steps deep into the dark, dank interior of a papal fortress and crawl into prison cells that housed countless common criminals as well as Rome’s errant elite. The 1,900-year-old Castel Sant’Angelo, which stands near the Tiber...
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January 19, 2012

Archdiocese embraces March for Life

WASHINGTON – As some 20,000 people marched along F Street in Northwest D.C. after the Youth Rally and Mass for Life Jan. 22, Rebecca Ferguson, 14, observed that everyone has a reason for marching.
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January 19, 2012

Advisor offers step-by-step tips for picking a college

High school students don’t have to be overwhelmed when picking a college as long as they put college planning on their agenda each year leading up to graduation, according to Monica Moody Moore, vice president for enrollment management at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore. “You don’t want to use a singular source...
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January 19, 2012

Cardinal DiNardo praises presence of youths in pro-life movement

WASHINGTON – At a Jan. 21 Mass for leaders in the pro-life movement, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston praised the presence of young people in pro-life activities.
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January 19, 2012

Camp St. Vincent celebrates 100 years of fun and caring

Asked what he wants to be when he grows up, 11-year-old Diallo Bratcher didn’t pause for a moment before he replied with the most serious expression he could produce. “A lawyer,” he answered. Why? “Because I talk a lot,” Diallo said, and this time his almost ever-present, infectious grin returned. Diallo, his 10-year-old brother and...
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January 19, 2012

Agencies boost effort to help Haitians injured, left homeless by quake

WASHINGTON – Facing a growing humanitarian crisis after the largest earthquake in Haiti in two centuries, Catholic aid agencies and world governments were boosting efforts to respond to the needs of hundreds of thousands of injured and homeless.
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January 19, 2012

Father Peterson celebrates 60th anniversary

In his 60 years as a priest, the ministry Father Casimir Peterson said he most enjoyed was his 12 years serving patients with mental illness at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C.
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