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January 19, 2012

2009 in Review: Catholic influence seen in House health bill, but what about Senate?

WASHINGTON – Although the ultimate fate of health reform legislation in the U.S. Congress remained up in the air as the end of 2009 neared, one thing is certain: With their unequivocal call to keep the legislation abortion-neutral, the U.S. bishops had a strong influence on the debate.
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January 19, 2012

Chaplain in Afghanistan reminds troops they carry Christ with them

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan – On the fourth Sunday of Advent, in a small plywood chapel with two-by-four benches, Father Ulysses L. Ubalde reminded an overflow crowd of military personnel that they, like Mary and her cousin Elizabeth, were vessels of holiness.
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January 19, 2012

Blizzard buries Baltimore, empties churches

It was a first in Monsignor James M. Barker’s 29 years of priesthood. When he showed up for 5:30 p.m. Mass Dec.19 at St. Ignatius in Hickory, the pastor was the only one there.
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January 19, 2012

Problems remain with Senate health reform bill, USCCB chairmen say

WASHINGTON – Although authentic reform of the nation’s health system is “a public good, moral imperative and urgent national priority,” the Senate version of health reform legislation “should not move forward in its current form,” the heads of three committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Dec. 19.
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January 19, 2012

Health reform, Pope Benedict named top story, newsmaker of 2009

WASHINGTON – The debate over health care reform topped the religious news stories of 2009, and Pope Benedict XVI and President Barack Obama were again the top newsmakers, according to the annual poll conducted by Catholic News Service.
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January 19, 2012

Friends remember unselfish St. Ursula parishioner at Christmas

Alan Hahn was ready for a cooking challenge every Christmas Eve, as immediate and extended family would return home.
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January 19, 2012

Site lets people send pope Christmas photos, share papal e-cards

VATICAN CITY – Young people can send Pope Benedict XVI a Christmas greeting personalized with a photograph and they can send their friends electronic Christmas cards featuring a message from the pope.
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January 19, 2012

Magliano not quite right

Tony Magliano (CR, Dec. 10) makes a plea for Catholics to get off the sidelines of the health care debate. He frames it as a “life-and death struggle”. Life, I presume, is the good that will come from its passage; death is the abortion and end of life provisions currently within it. He states that...
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January 19, 2012

Magliano misrepresents the faith

Tony Magliano's left-wing ramblings would be comical if not for the fact that CNS, and in turn The Catholic Review, consistently affords him a platform for misrepresenting the faith.
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January 19, 2012

Sainthood causes advance for Popes John Paul II, Pius XII

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI advanced the sainthood causes of Pope John Paul II and Pope Pius XII, declaring that both had lived lives of “heroic virtues.”
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January 19, 2012

Catholics Excused from Attending Mass if Travel is Unsafe

Archbishop Edwin O'Brien, Archbishop of Baltimore, is reminding Catholics in the Archdiocese that Church law excuses them from fulfilling the Sunday obligation to attend Mass due to a "grave cause," such as unsafe travel due to severe weather conditions.
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January 19, 2012

Catholic university in Nebraska starts program to supply needed religion teachers

WASHINGTON – Creighton University has initiated a new program to help meet the need U.S. Catholic schools say they have for qualified religion teachers.
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