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January 19, 2012

Leading Voices on Schools

In my column two weeks ago, I provided the text of the address I delivered last month at two separate meetings with parish and school leaders concerning the critical challenges facing our schools. In those remarks I presented an overview of the current state of our schools and an outline of the steps we are...
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January 19, 2012

St. Alphonsus

St. Alphonsus Maria De Liguori was born Sept. 27, 1696, near Naples, Italy. He received a doctorate in law at age 16 and had his own practice by age 21. When he realized his call to the religious life, he studied theology and was ordained at the age of 29. This preacher and home missioner...
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January 19, 2012

Priest serves indigenous town rocked by revolt against criminals

CHERAN, Mexico – Father Antonio Mora ministers to a town under siege, where masked men guard checkpoints leading into town, the charred remains of logging trucks block roads and a banner across from his parish in the town square demands a military presence.
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January 19, 2012

Father Snyder defends his role on president’s advisory council

WASHINGTON – Despite receiving what he termed “hate mail” that questioned his involvement on the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, the president of Catholic Charities USA said he welcomed the opportunity to bring the church’s views on serving the poor and marginalized to national discussions aimed at solving deepening social problems.
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January 19, 2012

St. Bartholomew

St. Bartholomew was one of the Twelve Apostles and a friend of St. Philip, who brought him to Jesus. Local tradition says that he preached in Ethiopia, India and Armenia, possibly leaving his writings behind. The saint died for his faith when he was flayed alive in Armenia. St. Bartholomew is patron saint of Armenia.
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January 19, 2012

As St. Michael in Fells Point prepares to close, ‘celebration of hope’ planned at Sacred Heart

Redemptorist Father Robert Wojtek likens the impending closure of St. Michael Church in Fells Point and the relocation of its bilingual faith community to Sacred Heart of Jesus in Highlandtown as a kind of “death and resurrection.”
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January 19, 2012

Court takes church-state case brought by Catholic challenging a cross

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a church-state case involving a cross erected by the Veterans of Foreign Wars in a national park in California.
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January 19, 2012

St. Bruno

St. Bruno was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1030 and was ordained circa 1055. He taught theology, and one of his students became Pope Urban II. He presided at a school in Rheims between 1057 and 1075. He criticized worldliness among the members of the clergy. After having a vision, he moved to a mountain...
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January 19, 2012

New Savannah bishop, one-time Curley High principal, introduced to his diocese

SAVANNAH, Ga. – The Conventual Franciscan pastor who will become Savannah’s bishop Oct. 18 observed at his introduction July 19 that it will take a helicopter to reach the far-flung ends of the diocese.
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January 19, 2012

Vietnamese cardinal, known for leadership during hard times, dies

HANOI, Vietnam – Cardinal Paul Pham Dinh Tung, known for his leadership of Catholics in northern Vietnamese dioceses during difficult times, died at the age of 89.
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January 19, 2012

St. Barlaam

St. Barlaam was born in Antioch sometime after 200. During the persecutions under Diocletian, this Christian peasant was jailed for his faith. At his trial in 304, he was tortured but refused to deny his faith. Barlaam lost his hand in fire when the judge tried to make it look like he was making a...
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January 19, 2012

Bishop Mazzolari of Rumbek, South Sudan, dies during Mass

RUMBEK, South Sudan – Italian-born Bishop Cesare Mazzolari, known for rebuilding church structures and communities in the Diocese of Rumbek, died July 16 while concelebrating Mass.
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