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January 1, 2012

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 29,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 11 sold-out performances for that many […]

Archdiocese Announces Leases for Five Former Catholic School Building for us as Charter School, Other Educational Facilities

Sean Caine

December 29, 2011

Press Release

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, announced today that the Archdiocese has approved leases for five former Catholic school buildings for use as educational facilities in the Baltimore area. Earlier this year, the Archdiocese announced a new policy for processing requests to sell or lease former Catholic school buildings. The […]

Bethlehem Brawl: So much for ‘peace on Earth, goodwill toward men’

December 29, 2011

Clerics brawl with broomsticks at the site where Jesus is believed to have been born. (BBC image) Two days after the world celebrated the birth of the Prince of Peace, things weren’t so peaceful at the Bethlehem church built on what is believed to be the site of Jesus’ nativity. Brandishing brooms, 100 black-robed Greek […]

Aunt Gertrude and other holiday lessons

December 27, 2011

I have a 20-something friend who spends her days working with the elderly. Many have dementia. Some are rude and blurt out foul language. Some are truly sweet. My friend seems to have a place in her heart for them all. She has affectionately dubbed them, “the olds.” Over the holidays, I spent some quality […]

Christmas at the Vatican

December 24, 2011

There are two places that I always dreamed it would be great to be for Christmas midnight Mass: Bethlehem or Rome. This year my wife and I got the chance to be in Rome, at the Vatican for Christmas, and it was amazing. As a schola chanted hymns before Mass, the basilica filled up with […]

Midnight Masses canceled in Iraq because of growing security concerns

LONDON – Chaldean Catholic officials have canceled traditional Christmas Eve midnight Masses because of security risks.

US bishops to study 50-state approach to immigration at Utah conference

SALT LAKE CITY – A three-day conference on issues faced by Catholic advocates of comprehensive immigration reform is scheduled for Jan. 11-13 in Salt Lake City. The conference is sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network.

Mexican bishops declare tour of Blessed John Paul II relics a success

MEXICO CITY – The Mexican bishops’ conference declared a nationwide tour of relics of Blessed John Paul II a “total success” as an estimated 27 million Catholics came to venerate the items – including a vial of the late pontiff’s blood – and pray for peace in Mexico.

Year brings health care reform law and a ‘wound to church’s unity’

WASHINGTON – 2010 will be known in many circles as the year of health reform. Among Catholics, it might also be known as the year that caused, as Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George said in his final talk as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a “wound to the church’s unity.”

New missal translation introduced in 2011 also an evangelization tool

WASHINGTON – Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl doesn’t have a problem with the fact that there will be some missteps and some wrong words spoken during the first weeks of using the new English translation of the Roman Missal at Mass.

Bishops’ concerns rise over growing infringements on religious liberty