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Australian bishops question plan to return ethnic Hazara to Afghanistan

PERTH, Australia – The same day that up to 50 asylum seekers drowned off the coast of Australia, the nation’s Catholic bishops questioned the planned repatriation of more than 300 ethnic Hazara asylum seekers to Afghanistan.
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Sudanese refugee counts blessings

Renounce your Catholic faith, his boss said, and convert to Muslim. James Okeny refused, and lost his job as a result.
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Sen. Cardin meets with Md. religious leaders

In his first official assembly with Maryland religious leaders, Sen. Ben Cardin laid out his vision for the war in Iraq, immigration reform, peace intervention in the Holy Land and national health coverage, and set up a process to confer with the group on a regular basis.
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Border-to-be grows tense as Southern Sudan’s independence vote nears

MALAKAL, Southern Sudan – As January’s referendum on independence for Southern Sudan approaches, tensions are running high in communities along what many expect will become a new international border with northern Sudan.
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We’ll get through it; but glad when it’s over

Both of these things can be said, at the same time, about most current news, not only the November election, but also the hurricane season, and the baseball season. The best feature, at this writing, about all three is that they will end, unlike the tragic wars in the Middle East, which do threaten to...
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Father Bak, ‘pioneer’ in diaconate, dies

Father Bernard S. Bak, one of the first permanent deacons ordained in the United States who later became a priest for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died in his Dundalk home June 8. He was 85. A funeral Mass was offered June 11 at St. Casimir in Canton, the parish in which Father Bak grew up...
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Bishop Hubbard joins evangelical leader in call to ratify new nuke pact

WASHINGTON – For the second time in a week, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace called upon the U.S. Senate to ratify the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
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St. John the Evangelist earns Blue Ribbon status

Sister Linda Larsen, S.S.J., sat in her office Sept. 8 and felt like dancing.
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Archdiocese collects scrap metal for statue of Pope John Paul

MEXICO CITY – The Archdiocese of Leon is collecting scrap metal to create a life-size statue of Pope John Paul II.
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Cristo Rey students learn of forgiveness, legacy of Len Bias from mother of late basketball star

A poster hangs inside the office of athletic director Tony Cole at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Fells Point.
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Man who died trying to rescue son recalled as devoted father, friend

ARLINGTON, Va. – A Virginia man who died while trying to rescue his son after he had fallen into a septic tank was remembered by friends and family as a loyal friend, volunteer and above all a devoted father and husband.
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Pope to proclaim year dedicated to St. Paul

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI plans to proclaim a year dedicated to St. Paul, in preparation for the 2,000th anniversary of the apostle’s birth, the Vatican said. The pope was scheduled to announce the commemorative year at a vespers service June 28 in the Basilica of St. Paul’s Outside the Walls in Rome, on...
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