Dialogue group praises schools where Catholics, Muslims study together

VATICAN CITY - Schools where Christians and Muslims study together, as they do at many Catholic schools in the Middle East, should be supported and cherished by both communities because they promote dialogue and lead to real friendships, said dialogue participants.
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New app to link people, send prayers to Holy Land

ROME - A new iPad application developed by two priests will send users news, videos and photos from the Holy Land and let people send prayers via “virtual candles.”
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Baltimore policies aimed at protecting children

The Archdiocese of Baltimore employs a comprehensive program designed to protect children from sexual abuse. All archdiocesan employees must complete an application for employment and provide three references. They undergo fingerprint checks and online criminal history. They must also review the Statement of Policy for the Protection of Children and Youth and the Code of...
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Archdiocese receives allegation of abuse from 1960s against retired priest, 79

In October of last year, the Archdiocese of Baltimore learned of an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor against Father John Lippold, 79, a retired priest residing in Baltimore County. The alleged abuse occurred in the late 1960s and early 1970s while the priest was serving as Associate Pastor at Ss. Philip & James...
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John Carroll senior sees life clearly now

Molly Ann Pais has it all. She is less than a month away from graduating from The John Carroll School in Bel Air, has been a star defensive player on one of Baltimore’s top girls high school lacrosse teams and boasts a 3.95 grade point average.
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Seven Loyola hospital employees donate kidneys to strangers

MAYWOOD, Ill. – Loyola University Medical Center is a very giving place to work – so much so that within the past year, seven female employees donated their kidneys as part of the center’s Pay-It-Forward Kidney Transplant Program.
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Mercy patients tune in to healing power of music

Like Duke Orsino in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” Mercy Medical Center’s Dr. Kathy J. Helzlsouer may be inclined to agree that, “if music be the food of love, play on.”
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New Jersey woman credits Mercy stem cell use for new lease on life

Driving on a highway spotted with black ice near her home in Egg Harbor City, N.J., on Jan. 18, 2009, Susan Cossabone’s car was smashed into by an out-of-control Hamilton Township police car, nearly killing her.
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Pray for seminarians

On May 21, four men will be ordained transitional deacons by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien. They are Jaime Garcia Vasquez, Isaac Kioko Makovo, Steven Paul Roth and Stephen Duane Cotter. By the grace of God, these same men will be ordained priests next year. Keep them all in your prayers, and keep praying for vocations.
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No room for complacency in protecting children from abuse, bishop says

WASHINGTON - Although a new report on the causes and context of child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy says it is primarily a historical problem, the church must guard against complacency, two key figures in the release of the report said at a Washington news conference.
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Misperceptions of abuse problem common, John Jay report says

WASHINGTON - Several commonly held assumptions about clergy sexual abuse of minors are actually misperceptions, according to the report released May 18 on a major study of the causes and context of the problem in the United States.
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Bishops’ child protection officer looks to church’s next steps on abuse

WASHINGTON - Teresa Kettelkamp anticipates that over the next few years every article in the U.S. bishops’ 2002 “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” will come to be viewed as the commonly expected practice in dioceses, parishes, schools and other church organizations. Catholics will say, “This is what we do.”
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