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January 19, 2012
January 19, 2012

Priest wonders if Egypt will be better for Christians with Mubarak gone

VICTORIA, Texas – Trinitarian Father Alfonso Serna, who spent the first year after his 2009 ordination ministering in Egypt, said he is not sure whether a regime change in Egypt will help the minority Christian population there.
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January 19, 2012

Many possible political, economic paths seen for post-Mubarak Egypt

WASHINGTON – After the 18-day “revolution” of public protests that toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Feb. 11, the path ahead for the nation is a blank slate, with a wide range of political and economic paths possible, according to an expert on Egypt at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
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January 19, 2012

Campus minister’s song to be performed at national youth conference

WASHINGTON – A University of Dayton campus minister hopes his original song, “Called to Glory,” will help recruit youths to follow the Gospel call of love and service at the 2011 National Catholic Youth Conference.
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January 19, 2012

Don’t balance budgets on backs of poor, bishops tell state legislators

WASHINGTON – Catholic bishops around the country are reminding state legislatures and their fellow citizens that the nation’s budgetary problems are not over and must not be resolved on the backs of the poor.
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January 19, 2012

Tucson shooting spree prompts renewed debate on gun-control issue in US

DETROIT – Avid outdoorsman and hunter Father Joe Classen, associate pastor at Holy Spirit Parish in Maryland Heights, Mo., has a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
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January 19, 2012

Australia prepares pilgrims’ center in Rome

ROME – Surrounded by cement mixers, bricklayers and slabs of marble flooring, Cardinal George Pell of Sydney surveyed progress on an unusually ambitious construction project in Rome.
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January 19, 2012

Grand jury indicts five after Philadelphia sex abuse investigation

PHILADELPHIA – In a reprise of 2005’s sensational grand jury report of sexual assaults by clergy in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams released a new report Feb. 10 by a grand jury investigating similar abuse.
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January 19, 2012

Catholic theologians call for changes after abuse crisis in Germany

OXFORD, England – More than 140 Catholic theologians from universities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland called for the church to take serious steps to address the problems of the priest shortage by allowing married priests and women to have more active roles in church ministry and allowing laypeople to help select bishops and pastors, among...
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January 19, 2012

Obama names 12 to White House faith-based advisory council

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has named replacements for half of the one-year positions on his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
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January 19, 2012

Senate committee hears testimony on same-sex marriage

ANNAPOLIS – A Senate hearing room was filled beyond capacity Feb. 8 as members of the Judicial Proceedings Committee heard passionate testimony for and against a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland.
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January 19, 2012

East Baltimore churches, school to reorganize

Redemptorist and archdiocesan leaders unveiled a plan Feb. 5-6 to establish a new bicultural, bilingual parish at Sacred Heart of Jesus in Highlandtown.
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January 19, 2012

Loyola University receives $1 million gift from Haig estate

Loyola University Maryland has received a $1 million gift from the estate of former Secretary of State Gen. Alexander M. Haig, who died in February 2010.
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