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January 19, 2012

Pope’s meeting with priest does not affect Jewish relations

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s brief encounter with a Polish priest accused of anti-Semitism does not indicate any change in the Vatican’s position concerning Catholic-Jewish relations, the Vatican said in a written statement.
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January 19, 2012

Sainthood candidate seen as excellent model for today

WASHINGTON – Father Michael J. McGivney, an American parish priest and founder of the Knights of Columbus in 19th-century Connecticut, would be a model saint for today, according to the Knights’ supreme chaplain.
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January 19, 2012

Gambrills and Annapolis parishioners donate hair

Sitting on a booster seat in the Signatures hair salon in Annapolis, 4-year-old Caitlin Guenther watched herself stoically in the mirror as Patti Linkins gathered the girl’s lush, long locks into a pony tail and raised a pair of scissors. In a series of assertive snips, the hair stylist clipped 10-inches off the brunette’s soft...
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January 19, 2012

Monsignor McGovern celebrates 40th jubilee

Enabling the laity to take a more active role in ministry has been one of the highlights of the priesthood for Monsignor James O. McGovern, pastor of Church of the Resurrection in Ellicott City.
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January 19, 2012

Knights will keep up the fight on life, marriage issues

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Knights of Columbus will continue to fight politically on issues important to the Catholic Church, such as abortion, marriage and embryonic stem-cell research, pledged Supreme Knight Carl Anderson. “One of our most important traditions throughout our 125-year history is that we do not, as an organization, become involved in partisan politics,”...
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January 19, 2012

Adultery claims against archbishop remain unproven

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – A man who has charged Zimbabwean Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo with adultery has not substantiated his allegations, said the archbishop’s lawyer.
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January 19, 2012

Pope, nun, priest ranked among world’s top ‘green’ leaders

WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has been ranked as one of the top “green” religious leaders by the online environmental magazine Grist.
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January 19, 2012

Christ is all and in all

Russell Shaw’s recent column (“Catholics Not Claiming to Be Better Than Others,” CR Aug. 2) was one of the best efforts I have seen so far in trying to explain the supposed true motives of Pope Benedict’s recent attempt to drive home the point that the Catholic Church is special in the eyes of God.
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January 19, 2012

Xaverian Brothers elect new leader

The Baltimore-based Xaverian Brothers have elected Brother Lawrence Harvey, C.F.X., to serve as the new general superior of the worldwide religious community, known formally as the Congregation of the Brothers of St. Francis Xavier.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop O’Brien considered popular as a seminarian

As a seminarian in the 1960s, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien was considered serious, yet jocular, and fellow classmates wouldn’t have necessarily picked him out as the cleric in their class to become one of the most respected U.S. Catholic leaders.
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January 19, 2012

Iraqi Christians were safer under Saddam

VATICAN CITY – Although Iraq has a democratic government, Iraqi Christians were safer and had more protection under former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, said the future head of the Vatican’s interreligious dialogue council.
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January 19, 2012

French Cardinal Lustiger dies

VATICAN CITY – Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, the Jewish-born former archbishop of Paris who defended the right of believers to have a say in public debates, died at the age of 80.
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