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January 19, 2012
January 19, 2012

Terrorism based on real grievances

ROME – Heightened security and military preparedness alone cannot prevent acts of terrorism, because terrorism is born of real grievances twisted by hatred, said Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers. Cardinal Martino spoke at the opening of an April 23-27 seminar the council was holding with Catholic airport chaplains...
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January 19, 2012

Pope calls St. Augustine ‘model of conversion’

PAVIA, Italy – Paying homage to one of the most important figures of the church, Pope Benedict XVI prayed at the tomb of St. Augustine and called him a “model of conversion” for Christians of all ages. Although conditioned by the passions of youth and the habits of his time, St. Augustine sought the truth...
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January 19, 2012

Limbo reflects ‘restrictive view of salvation’

VATICAN CITY – After several years of study, the Vatican’s International Theological Commission said there are good reasons to hope that babies who die without being baptized go to heaven. In a document published April 20, the commission said the traditional concept of limbo – as a place where unbaptized infants spend eternity but without...
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January 19, 2012

Pastor says ‘words are not enough’

BLACKSBURG, Va. – Words are not enough to comfort grieving parents, said a priest who spent time with the parents of several of the slain Virginia Tech students when they first learned their son or daughter was dead. In the early hours after the murder rampage on campus that left 33 dead, Father James Arsenault,...
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January 19, 2012

World must do more to support Iraqi refugees

ROME – The international community must do more to welcome and support the thousands of refugees daily fleeing the “horrific violence” in Iraq, a Vatican official said. “The world is witnessing an unprecedented degree of hate and destructiveness in Iraq,” which not only destroys the “social tissue and the unity of Iraq,” but is exerting...
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January 19, 2012

T.O.R.C.H. support group keeps home school fire lit

Anita DiGregory hasn’t an inkling on how to pronounce any of the Latin words in her son’s lessons, but that doesn’t prevent the mother of four from continuing her call to home school. “I absolutely love home-schooling and I wouldn’t do it any other way,” said Mrs. DiGregory. “It is so rewarding. I get to...
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January 19, 2012

Maryland native to showcase portraits

Joseph Sheppard, an internationally acclaimed painter/sculptor will present an exhibition of more than 50 drawings, paintings and sculpture at the arts program gallery of the University of Maryland University College through June 18.
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January 19, 2012

Councilman Curran basks in the smoke-free spotlight

Being known as the “Poster Child of Smoke-Free Maryland” may have shined the political spotlight on Baltimore City Council Vice President Robert Curran, but the St. Francis of Assisi, Baltimore, parishioner doesn’t believe his successful push for city- and state-wide smoking bans is his greatest accomplishment as a public servant. Leading the charge to help...
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January 19, 2012

Church leaders to go ahead with dedication

WARSAW, Poland – Church leaders have vowed to press ahead with the dedication of a Catholic church in Azerbaijan a week after it was damaged by attackers. “The opening will undoubtedly take place – there’ve been no changes in our program,” said Father Rolandas Makrickas, an official at the Vatican’s Tbilisi-based nunciature. The newly completed...
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January 19, 2012

French-speaking Catholics find solace in Mass

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – They greet each other as family inside the small chapel at Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria, with warm hugs, a “Comment ca va?” and three kisses on alternating cheeks.
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January 19, 2012

A change of direction for the ‘deacon and his wife’

Deacon Frederick Passauer and his wife Kathy were booming business owners of an insurance company in Manchester, when they heard God’s calling. The couple sold their business and their home and moved to the Deep Creek Lake area to start their new business, serving parishioners of western Maryland. “We knew this was our goal. To...
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January 19, 2012

St. Mary’s Seminary and University dedicates addition

St. Mary’s Seminary and University, Roland Park, the nation’s first Roman Catholic seminary, dedicated a new room in its library April 18 highlighting Pope John Paul II’s contributions to Catholic-Jewish relations.
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