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The Dec. 22 issue of The Catholic Review includes the fourth and final article from my trip in late October to Port-au-Prince Haiti with the leaders of Catholic Relief Services. Ken Hackett, Carolyn Woo and Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas were a delight, as were all the CRS workers in the field. Communications Officer Jean-Daniel LaFontant […]

Country star wanted newest album to sound ‘like you were in church’

WASHINGTON – Collin Raye, the Catholic country singer who had a string of hits in the 1990s, said he wanted to make his latest album “feel like you were in church for an hour or so.”

Percentage of Americans who are married reaches all-time low

WASHINGTON – With cohabitation, single-person households and single parenthood on the rise, the percentage of Americans who are currently married has reached an all-time low.

Number of Catholic marriages down nearly 60 percent since 1972

WASHINGTON – Like the number of marriages among Americans in general, the number of marriages performed in the Catholic Church has been in decline over the past few decades.

Carolyn Woo appreciates the gift of a worker’s bib from Catholic Relief Services staff in Port-au-Prince

New CRS president gives back to faith that propelled her

Paul McMullen

Local News, News

FOURTH IN A SERIES PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Carolyn Woo learned English from Maryknoll missioner sisters. In tears her first day at Purdue University because she couldn’t decipher a campus map, she found solace at its Newman Center. Woo met and married her husband at Purdue, and its church bell rang when she defended her doctoral dissertation there.

Name tags go high-tech in Gambrills

Visitor name tag from School of the Incarnation, Gambrills. Last week, while spending some time at School of the Incarnation in Gambrills for a heart-warming story on homeless outreach, I was amazed by the Anne Arundel County school’s snazzy system for admitting visitors. As soon as I was buzzed in, I was asked to present my […]

Video of Camp GLOW campers singing Christmas songs

Yesterday I posted a video of Bonnie Block singing “O Holy Night” at the Camp GLOW Christmas party here in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The party was held for people with special needs in Maryland and was attended by more than 150 people. The people with special needs shared their love of music through Christmas […]

Camp GLOW lights the Christmas spirit

SPARKS – Bill Fleming didn’t need to finish his sentence. As he welcomed people to the Camp GLOW Christmas Party at the Monsignor O’Dwyer Retreat House Dec. 18, he told them a special guest was on his way.

Brian Morrison is the founder

Catonsville parishioner provides haven for ill children

Local News, News

As Brian Morrison walked around the Children’s House at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, a woman emerged from a room. She overheard Morrison talking about the services his organization, the Believe In Tomorrow Children’s Foundation, provides for the house.

Christmas Mass Schedule for Cathedral and Basilica

Sean Caine

December 19, 2011

Press Release

BASILICA OF THE NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (Cathedral & Mulberry Streets) Saturday, December 24, Christmas Eve 4:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m., Midnight (Archbishop O’Brien, Celebrant. Choir begins at 11:30 p.m.). Sunday, December 25, Christmas Day 8:00 a.m., 10:45 a.m. CATHEDRAL OF MARY OUR QUEEN (5200 N. Charles Street) Saturday, December […]

Camp GLOW attendee sings “O Holy Night”

December 19, 2011