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WASHINGTON – The degree to which religiously based organizations push for change in Washington will likely always be open to debate and differing interpretations, but the truer measure may be their effectiveness, even in the midst of a cranky Congress dealing with cash-short coffers.

Catholic campaign aims to bring Catholics back to church

ATLANTA – A new advertising campaign aims to bring Catholics back to church with ads airing on major television networks Dec. 16-Jan. 8.

University of Arkansas football player recalled as ‘an amazing soul’

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Catholic community in Little Rock and Fayetteville joined the rest of the state in mourning the death of University of Arkansas football player Garrett Uekman.

Vatican exhibit displays inspirational elements of Gaudi church

VATICAN CITY – Without leaving the Vatican, visitors exiting St. Peter’s Basilica can gain firsthand exposure to another impressive church, Antoni Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia.

HHS defends decision on funding trafficking victims program to Congress

WASHINGTON – A U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops program aiding victims of human trafficking was denied funding after its administrators declined to propose alternatives to a government requirement that female victims receive “the full range of legally permissible gynecological and obstetric care,” a Department of Health and Human Services official told a congressional committee.

Feast of Immaculate Conception Dec. 8

Parishes across the Archdiocese of Baltimore will mark the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Masses Dec. 8, a holy day of obligation. The feast celebrates that Mary, by special divine favor in anticipation of her role in salvation, was without sin from the moment she was conceived.

CUA president pleased ruling confirms legality of single-sex dorms

WASHINGTON – John Garvey, president of The Catholic University of America, said he was “gratified” by the dismissal of a complaint filed against the university saying its single-sex dorms discriminated against women.

Youth ‘Focus’ on Vocations

Archdiocese Staff

OBrien Articles

The Catholic Review A study conducted in the 1980s indicated that most priests and religious first seriously thought about ministry around the age of 11 and then again in their junior year of high school. Two years after that study, “Focus 11” was born. First instituted in the Archdiocese of Detroit, the program had two […]

Youth ‘Focus’ on Vocations

Archdiocese Staff

OBrien Articles

BISHOP APPLAUDED AT MARRIAGE AMENDMENT HEARING Attendees of a public hearing on Pennsylvania's proposed Marriage Protection Amendment applaud Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik. More than 200 people attended the April 10 hearing in the Allegheny County Courthouse. (CNS photo/Douglas Kaup)|

Interfaith leaders pledge to defend traditional marriage in Maryland

George P. Matysek Jr.

Local News, News

Leaders of a newly-formed pro-marriage coalition came out swinging against efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland – pledging in a Nov. 30 press conference to rally citizens across the state to defeat legislation that would alter the traditional definition of marriage.

Basilica Christmas concert to benefit senior housing

The Concert Artists of Baltimore, the Peabody Children’s Chorus and the Archbishop Curley High School Ringers Handbell Choir will be the featured performers at a Dec. 15 Christmas concert at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore.

On World AIDS Day, Vatican renews call for greater access to therapy