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January 19, 2012

Collection exceeds $7 million in 2006

WASHINGTON – The national collection to aid the church in Latin America received more than $7 million in contributions for the first time last year and used the funds to assist 476 projects in nearly two dozen countries.
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January 19, 2012

Stand up for working class

Readers were well served by George Weigel and Tony Magliano side by side (CR, March 24). I agree with Weigel’s assessment of the reactionary behavior of teachers’ unions blocking school vouchers for selfish reasons, to preserve their own empire, but he goes far beyond to attack all public unions and place the blame for the...
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January 19, 2012

Bishops urge Washington governor to commute inmate’s death sentence

SEATTLE – The Catholic bishops of Washington state have asked Gov. Christine Gregoire to commute the death sentence for Darold Stenson and give him life imprisonment without parole.
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January 19, 2012

Parish checkups measure ‘how Holy Spirit is guiding us’

WEST BABYLON, N.Y. – Seven Long Island parishes are giving themselves a spiritual checkup – conducting surveys to find out how actively engaged their parishioners are.
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January 19, 2012

Basilica to display Mangione gift to college library April 5

A Heritage Edition of the “Saint John’s Bible,” a fine art reproduction of a handwritten text, will be on display at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore during an evening of prayer and reflection April 5, from 7 to 9 p.m., courtesy of Loyola University...
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January 19, 2012

Texas pilgrimage promotes church efforts to defend life at all stages

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – With nothing more to protect them from the elements than the “umbrella of life,” more than 800 Catholics gathered in Huntsville to take part in the first “Pilgrimage of Life” Nov. 24.
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January 19, 2012

Stem-cell research still a hot topic in U.S. Congress, states

WASHINGTON – As the U.S. Senate considers whether to try to override the presidential veto of a bill permitting federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, a new bill in the House of Representatives would promote stem-cell research and clinical trials that do not involve the destruction of human embryos.
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January 19, 2012

Study: Catholics more tolerant than other Christians on same-sex issues

WASHINGTON – American Catholics are more tolerant than Americans in general and members of other Christian denominations on a variety of issues concerning homosexuals and same-sex couples, according to a study issued March 22 by the Washington-based Public Religion Research Institute.
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January 19, 2012

St. Dominic parishioner keeps giving back

Call him the all-around parishioner: finance committee chairman, pastoral council member, editor of the annual directory, parish photographer, acolyte at funerals. It’s enough to make you wonder how St. Dominic, Hamilton, would get by without John Matheny.
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January 19, 2012

Chinese Catholics welcome papal letter, but some doubt its effects

HONG KONG – Catholics in mainland China say they welcome the recent letter from Pope Benedict XVI, but some say they worry it will not produce the desired effects.
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January 19, 2012

Holy Cross steeple hosting South Baltimore cell tower

Federal Hill’s historic Holy Cross church, part of the Catholic Community of South Baltimore, is hosting a stealth cell phone tower in its steeple.
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January 19, 2012

People, Places, Things

Faith formation classes at Our Lady of the Fields, Millersville, collected 405 boxes of cereal for Catholic Charities’ Our Daily Bread Employment Center in the parish’s annual Cereal Election. Contributors vote by donating a favorite cereal; 100 of those boxes were collected by the children in Mary O’Malley’s family, whose late husband, Michael O’Malley, was...
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