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January 19, 2012

Unaccompanied migrant and refugee children a U.S. and global issue

FAIRFAX, Va. – David Siegel takes a highly personal view of his job as acting director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement in the Department of Health and Human Services.
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January 19, 2012

Cardinal grants surprise visit to Catholic Daughters

Seventy-five Catholic Daughters of the Americas from 17 courts in the State of Maryland got a special surprise Aug. 11 as they visited the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore.
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January 19, 2012

Don’t stop at Catholic classrooms

I would like to take issue with a statement made by Archbishop O’Brien in “Thoughts on Our Church” (CR, Jan. 27). He wrote, “Those of us close to Catholic education can well attest to the many benefits of our schools, whose graduates: Pray better and more often …” I have my doubts that it is...
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January 19, 2012

Cardinal Keeler sees prayer garden as ‘holy ground’

As construction workers arranged yellow fall annuals and wiped down a wrought-iron fence at the Pope John Paul II Prayer Garden, Cardinal William H. Keeler surprised them.
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January 19, 2012

Bishop Pelotte moved to Houston hospital to be near his brother

WASHINGTON – Bishop Donald E. Pelotte of Gallup, N.M., has been moved to a Houston hospital closer to where his brother lives, after spending more than two weeks in a Phoenix hospital recovering from injuries he said he sustained in a fall at his home July 22. In an Aug. 9 posting on the diocesan...
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January 19, 2012

Obama names 12 to White House faith-based advisory council

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has named replacements for half of the one-year positions on his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
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January 19, 2012

St. Joseph team heads to Tanzania

Malaria is among the maladies adversely affecting the quality of life in Tanzania.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop O’Brien considered popular as a seminarian

As a seminarian in the 1960s, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien was considered serious, yet jocular, and fellow classmates wouldn’t have necessarily picked him out as the cleric in their class to become one of the most respected U.S. Catholic leaders.
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January 19, 2012

Illinois bishops say new civil union law could harm religious freedom

CHICAGO – Illinois’ new law legalizing civil unions and giving them the same status as marriages in the state has the “potential for a serious conflict with religious liberty,” according to the state’s Catholic bishops.
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January 19, 2012

Conscience guides us

Throughout the ages conscience has been described in various ways. Origen, who lived around the year 200, called it “the chamber of justice.” Carl Jung said “through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface … a small voice says to us, ‘Something is out of tune,’ ” and our own...
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January 19, 2012

As economy grows, income disparity widens

LIMA, Peru – A team of U.S. and Peruvian researchers was investigating glaciers in the remote Andes Mountains of central Peru when a two-day general strike in the region was called to protest government economic policies.
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January 19, 2012

One of the ‘six fabulous Kunkel girls,’ School Sister credits her century to a happy home life

If the large house at 2102 South Road in Mount Washington could speak, it would tell happy tales of the 11-member Kunkel family who once lived under its roof.
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