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January 19, 2012

Make Thanksgiving a way of life

Recently, I lead a Day of Recollection on “Living Our Best Life” at Bon Secours Spiritual Center in Marriottsville. Since it was a rainy day, I left really early and arrived really early – 7:30 a.m. for a day that began at 10 a.m. However, God, as always, had a surprise for me.
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January 19, 2012

27 things I’m grateful for at Thanksgiving

Some years back, a book came out titled “14,000 Things to Be Happy About.” This compendium of gratitude simply listed thousands of items – from ice cream sandwiches to extra-inning baseball games – that made the author thankful, and inspired others to reflect along similar lines.
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January 19, 2012

USCCB calls Senate health reform bill ‘an enormous disappointment’

WASHINGTON – The health reform legislation now before the Senate is “an enormous disappointment, creating new and completely unacceptable federal policy that endangers human life and rights of conscience,” the chairmen of three committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Nov. 20.
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January 19, 2012

Philippine residents say massacre of unarmed civilians was expected

SHARIFF AGUAK, Philippines - The massacre of more than 45 unarmed civilians in the southern Philippines has drawn condemnation and expressions of shock, but local residents said the violence was to be expected.
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January 19, 2012

A Veterans Day thought

The Baltimore Sun’s obituary paints a colorful picture of Christopher Coffland:
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January 19, 2012

Catholic colleges hit hard by additional state cuts to Sellinger Program

Dr. Thomas H. Powell, president of Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, dreaded a Thanksgiving week review of his institution’s fiscal year 2010 operating budget.
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January 19, 2012

Adopted girls give back

CATONSVILLE – When Judy Wall was hoping to adopt a child overseas with her husband, Michael, she often dreamed about a little girl wearing yellow and white. Soon after the parishioners of St. Mark in Catonsville received word that a baby had been located in Vietnam, the adoption agency showed them the child’s photograph. Sure...
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January 19, 2012

City Council passes bill focused on pro-life pregnancy centers

The Baltimore City Council passed a bill Nov. 23 that imposes new requirements on four pro-life pregnancy centers in the city. Council members James B. Kraft, Bernard "Jack" Young and Agnes Welch were the only lawmakers on the 15-member council to oppose the measure, which requires pro-life pregnancy centers to post signs indicating that they...
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January 19, 2012

Bishop Tobin says he asked Rep. Kennedy privately not to receive Communion

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The bishop of Providence said he was “disappointed and really surprised” Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., made public a letter he wrote to the congressman almost three years ago about his practice of the Catholic faith and reception of Communion.
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January 19, 2012

Pope, Anglican leader pledge to continue dialogue for unity

VATICAN CITY – While some pundits have sounded the death knell for ecumenical relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion, Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, the Anglican spiritual leader, pledged to move forward.
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January 19, 2012

Chastity talk resonates with Baltimore teens

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Adults talking sexuality with a bunch of teens is typically a recipe for awkwardness. So, when a husband and wife team, Jason and Crystalina Evert, stood in front of 21,000 teenagers Nov. 20 and preached the values of chastity, the last thing anyone expected was for it to go over like...
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January 19, 2012

Conference is life-changing for teens, priests

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Father John Rapisarda was standing on the concourse of the Sprint Center arena Nov. 21 when a teenage girl walked up to him.
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