PERTH, Australia – The same day that up to 50 asylum seekers drowned off the coast of Australia, the nation’s Catholic bishops questioned the planned repatriation of more than 300 ethnic Hazara asylum seekers to Afghanistan.Read More
ROME – With the authorization of a papal delegate, the Legionaries of Christ have formalized in a new decree a number of reforms regarding the depiction of the order’s founder, the late-Father Marcial Maciel Degollado.Read More
Octavio Colin is a father of nine who recently celebrated his 25th wedding anniversary. The Mexican immigrant believes Our Lady of Guadalupe is the reason he’s alive today to enjoy watching his family blossom.Read More
A special needs student from Villa Maria School in Timonium died Dec. 10 from injuries sustained Dec. 8 after he became involved in an altercation and jumped from a moving bus. The bus, operated by a company contracted by Baltimore City Schools, was transporting the boy from his Catholic Charities-run school to his home.Read More
WASHINGTON – Five longtime peace activists were found guilty of a series of federal charges stemming from an All Souls’ Day demonstration in 2009 at a U.S. Navy nuclear weapons depot in Bangor, Wash.Read More
The Catholic Review (Oct. 28) reported of a small Anglican Church membership in Baltimore voting to join the Catholic Church. More recently (CR, Nov. 25) we read of five Anglican bishops of the Church of England also choosing to join the Catholic Church.Read More
GERMANTOWN – About 700 Catholics gathered in their winter hats and coats for an early morning Mass and prayerful protest Dec. 11 outside an abortion clinic to pray for the conversion of LeRoy Carhart, a doctor who recently came to Montgomery County from Nebraska to perform late term abortions.Read More
WASHINGTON – A Sister of St. Joseph who was Iona College’s chief financial officer has been charged by federal prosecutors with embezzling $800,000 from the Christian Brothers-run school over a decade.Read More
I disagree with Ken McVery’s opinion (CR, Nov 18) that promoting a game of Quidditch for the students at Mount St. Mary’s University is a great way to “speak to them.” I am shocked that a Catholic university would even consider, let alone promote, a recreational activity for students based on the Harry Potter series.Read More
VATICAN CITY – Changing the world for the better does not come from leaders making grandiose promises or calling for a violent revolution, Pope Benedict XVI said: It comes from the humble individuals who silently carry God’s light and love to everyone around them.Read More
VATICAN CITY – A spate of U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks portray the Vatican as horrified over clerical sex abuse in Ireland but also deeply concerned that the procedures used by Irish investigators of the scandal were “an affront to Vatican sovereignty.”Read More