WASHINGTON – In an effort to block posthumous rebaptisms by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Catholic dioceses throughout the world have been directed by the Vatican not to give information in parish registers to the Mormons’ Genealogical Society of Utah.Read More
Just two days after pulling off a gigantic upset of The Baltimore Sun’s No. 2 football team, Gilman, Calvert Hall’s Donald Davis was named High School Coach of the Week by the Baltimore Ravens Oct. 12.Read More
Last time, we talked about how our local church influences the world-wide church. But our local church must also be open to the influence of the church around the world, especially when the pope puts something squarely on our plate. An example of this can also be found in Benedict XVI’s United Nations address.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Development aid that is tied to promoting abortion, contraception and cutbacks in social and educational programs represents a form of “cultural imperialism” from the West that must end, said some African bishops.Read More
Mark Pacione fired his secretary – for 10 minutes. In that time, the archdiocese’s director of youth and young adult ministry honored secretary Susan Smith with a special award at The 54th Annual Youth and Young Adult Ministry Recognition Dinner April 24.Read More
WASHINGTON – After two years of essentially no change in the “on hold” status of immigration reform legislation, as well as eight years of increasingly restrictive federal policies toward immigration enforcement, signs of movement on both fronts are now coming fast and furiously.Read More
SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Leadership Conference of Women Religious appointed Sister Jane Burke, a School Sister of Notre Dame, as its new executive director, effective in August.Read More
NEW YORK – Mary Ann Glendon was “the heroine of the Notre Dame commencement tragedy” in May, an official of the National Right to Life Committee said as the Harvard law professor and former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican received the organization’s Proudly Pro-Life Award Oct. 6.Read More
The Maryland Delaware D.C. Press Association recently recognized The Catholic Review for excellence in journalism during recent editorial and advertising awards conventions April 17-18 at the Turf Valley Country Club in Ellicott City.Read More
When Virginia “Ginny” Dauses arrived at St. Mary’s High School in Annapolis several years ago as campus minister, 15 of the school’s young people attended the annual March for Life in Washington.Read More
NEW YORK – On his first trip to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI achieved three objectives that could be considered critical to the pastoral future of the American church.Read More