WASHINGTON – One thing that always stands out in the annual marches and rallies in Washington and across the country marking the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision legalizing abortion is the crowd.Read More
SEATTLE – Teaching half the school day in English and half in Spanish could be a boon for Catholic education in the United States, according to a Hispanic educator.Read More
WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop William C. Skurla of the Byzantine Eparchy of Passaic, N.J., as archbishop of the Byzantine Archeparchy of Pittsburgh.Read More
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration has turned down repeated requests from Catholic schools, charitable organizations and bishops to revise its religious exemption to the requirement that all health plans cover contraceptives and sterilization free of charge.Read More
MILWAUKEE – All smiles, Susan Kaeppeler, fourth-grade teacher at Kenosha’s St. Joseph Academy’s lower campus, was greeted with the red-carpet treatment when she arrived to class Jan. 16 after a whirlwind weekend where she saw her oldest daughter, Laura, crowned Miss America.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a tremendous toll on members of the military and their families, said Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, but military service also has strengthened the faith of many Catholics and even been a source of vocations.Read More
Cardinal-designate Edwin F. O’Brien, apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, announced Jan. 19 that Mount Calvary Church, a Baltimore parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, will be received into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church through the newly created Anglican Ordinariate for the United States.Read More
Mount St. Joseph High School has announced the appointment of George Andrews Jr. as president of the school. The announcement from the Irvington school follows the Dec. 6, 2011 death of Andrews’ predecessor, Xaverian Brother James Kelly.Read More
Leaders throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore and around the country expressed joy in Pope Benedict XVI’s elevation of Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien to the rank of cardinal. Many called the move a sign of the pope’s confidence in the cardinal-designate’s leadership and a tribute to his many decades of service to the church.Read More
ANNAPOLIS – Leaders of the Maryland Catholic Conference (MCC) expect no shortage of controversy in the 90-day session of the Maryland General Assembly that was to kick off Jan. 11.Read More
ANNAPOLIS – Dressed in a navy blue and white print dress, with matching blue pearls, her gray hair pulled into a bun, Mary McGowan looked peaceful as she read over material from St. Mary’s Church in Annapolis on a December afternoon.Read More