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January 19, 2012

Leaving the Counting to God

The Easter season provides the media with the opportunity each year to report on the state of the Catholic Church, Christianity and basically all-things-religion. This Easter was no different. The Easter-week edition of Newsweek contained an article entitled, “The End of Christian America,” based largely on the recently released 2009 American Religious Identification Survey which...
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January 19, 2012

New Mexico’s decision to abolish death penalty marked at Rome’s Colosseum

VATICAN CITY – For making what he described as “the most difficult decision in my political life,” Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico was given a front-row seat at a papal audience and was to see Rome’s Colosseum lit up in honor of his state.
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January 19, 2012

Pope gets early birthday celebration with song at general audience

VATICAN CITY – Pilgrims from all over the world treated Pope Benedict XVI to an early birthday celebration during his April 15 weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop says his style might differ, but substance of job won’t

NEW YORK – Archbishop Timothy J. Dolan predicted his style as New York’s archbishop will differ from that of his predecessors, but the substance will be the same.
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January 19, 2012

Immaculate Heart of Mary students flourish in Spanish Spelling Bee

Lucas Dernetz might not be former New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath yet, but he’s pretty good at following through on guarantees.
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January 19, 2012

As session closes, $2 million added for textbooks/technology

They didn’t get their much-sought business tax credit to help students and teachers in nonpublic and public schools, but leaders of the Maryland Catholic Conference (MCC) were elated to win an additional $2 million in state funding for nonreligious textbooks and technology in nonpublic schools.
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January 19, 2012

Catholics generally optimistic about church, Zogby poll finds

WASHINGTON – U.S. Catholics are generally optimistic about their church, according to the 2009 Le Moyne-Zogby Contemporary Catholic Trends survey released April 9.
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January 19, 2012

Indiana bishop urges Catholics not to participate in Obama protests

WASHINGTON – Calling the protests against President Barack Obama’s planned commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame “unseemly and unhelpful,” Bishop John M. D’Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., advised Catholics not to attend such demonstrations.
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January 19, 2012

Easter is season of joy for Catholics

Holy Week 2009 will go down as one of the most memorable and joyful for many pastors and parishioners throughout the archdiocese, as nearly 900 people were received fully into the Catholic Church during the April 11 Easter Vigil – the biggest number in a decade.
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January 19, 2012

Former Paraguayan bishop, now president, admits to fathering child

ASUNCION, Paraguay – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, the former bishop who was elected in 2008, admitted April 13 that he had fathered a child, now nearly two years old, who was born before Lugo was laicized.
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January 19, 2012

Daring rescue of ship’s captain leaves Vermont parish overjoyed

WASHINGTON – When news of the bold liberation of U.S. Capt. Richard Phillips from the grip of pirates off the coast of Somalia filtered through his Vermont Catholic parish April 12, members of his church community felt like their Easter prayers had been answered.
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January 19, 2012

Eastern meditation: Pope’s Way of the Cross adopts an Asian viewpoint

VATICAN CITY – This year’s meditation for Pope Benedict XVI’s Good Friday Way of the Cross has a distinctly Asian perspective, referring to Hindu scriptures, an Indian poet and Mahatma Gandhi.
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