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January 19, 2012
January 19, 2012

Archdiocese posts $15.4 million surplus

In the wake of two fiscal years burdened by large deficits, the Archdiocese of Baltimore ended Fiscal Year 2010 with a $15.4 million surplus. The figure was released in an archdiocesan financial report provided to The Catholic Review and published on pages 8 and 9.
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January 19, 2012

Attempt to allow ‘bedroom’ abortions dismissed by British judge

LONDON – A British judge dismissed a legal challenge to allow women to abort a child at home.
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January 19, 2012

Orioles’ Ernie Tyler, St. Ignatius parishioner, dies

Ernie Tyler was the Iron Man before Cal Ripken Jr. The Orioles longtime umpire attendant, who worked 3,819 consecutive home games at Memorial Stadium and Oriole Park at Camden Yards between 1960 and 2007, died at the age of 86 Feb. 11.
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January 19, 2012

Civil lawsuit says two cardinals, others failed to prevent sex abuse

PHILADELPHIA – A 28-year-old man who says he was abused by clergy on two separate occasions has filed a civil lawsuit against the two alleged abusers, the Catholic schools he attended, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, the city’s past and present cardinal archbishops and others he said failed to prevent the abuse.
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January 19, 2012

More ‘low’ Masses, please

Thanks to the information provided through The Catholic Review, we have been made aware that some years ago the bishops decided that “music should be a part of all celebrations,” as much as possible. For the life of me, I can’t recall a survey or poll being taken at that time to ascertain whether this...
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January 19, 2012

Caterer discovers wide-ranging support during ordeal

OVERLEA – George Bailey has nothing on Pep Perella. Just as the everyman hero of the film classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” discovered all the lives he had touched, Thomas “Pep” Perrella is getting a gauge on just how many men, women and children are behind him.
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January 19, 2012

Don’t stop at Catholic classrooms

I would like to take issue with a statement made by Archbishop O’Brien in “Thoughts on Our Church” (CR, Jan. 27). He wrote, “Those of us close to Catholic education can well attest to the many benefits of our schools, whose graduates: Pray better and more often …” I have my doubts that it is...
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January 19, 2012

Boston studies parishes’ future; change ahead for some Toledo parishes

BOSTON – In the Boston Archdiocese, a team of priests, deacons, religious and laypeople will help lay the groundwork for the archdiocese’s future, which will likely result in fewer parishes but a similar number of churches that currently serve Catholics.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop O’Brien honors couples, warns of threats to marriage

On a day set aside to honor married couples, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien warned of serious threats to the institution of marriage and called on Catholics to speak out against the proposed legalization of same-sex marriage in Maryland.
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January 19, 2012

Monsignor Strempeck, hospital chaplain and pastor, dies

Monsignor Martin R. Strempeck, a much-loved priest and former pastor who devoted much of his ministry to comforting others, died Feb. 8. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien offered a funeral Mass Feb. 14 at St. Margaret in Bel, the parish where 82-year-old MonsignorStrempeck had retired but remained active in ministry until three months before his death.
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January 19, 2012

New appreciation urged for classical music’s contributions to church

WASHINGTON – Classical music is underappreciated for its spiritual contribution to the church, the metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church said in a Feb. 9 address at The Catholic University of America.
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January 19, 2012

Fervor, devotion, joy: Parish Mass illustrates some of Kenyans’ gifts

NAIROBI, Kenya – Mass was approaching the two-hour mark at St. Mary’s Church. Members of the choir were wiping the sweat from their brow under the heat of the corrugated tin roof. Some of the dancers were fanning themselves with the tri-fold papers that contained the Sunday readings.
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