OXFORD, England – Catholic Church officials in Hungary have denounced the government’s decision to extend marriage rights to unmarried and same-sex couples.Read More
It’s been nearly 100 days since Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien assumed leadership of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and in that time he has begun to examine one of the key issues he addressed in his Oct. 1 installation homily – how the church can help Baltimore leaders deal with the problems of the city.Read More
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. – While multitudes of people see the art of muralist Hildreth Meiere at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, a limited audience also gets to see her work up close at St. Mary’s High School in Manhasset and at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington.Read More
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – It just might be the sweetest, cuddliest volunteer opportunity in the whole state of Alaska. For 67 volunteers at Providence Hospital in Anchorage, that opportunity is called the “Kuddle Korps.” Little training is required. You just have to love very small babies, and have the patience to sit for a couple of...Read More
Receiving chemotherapy by intravenous infusion can take between four and eight hours. That’s a long time to be sitting in a chair, not to mention the psychological aspect, so Dr. Mark Krasna, medical director of the Cancer Institute at St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, set out to find a chair that was both comfortable and...Read More
Dooriya Kane, Elizabeth Lelonek and Grace Kane collected and delivered more than 1,000 books for Sarah’s Hope Shelter and Resource Center. The Girl Scouts are candidates for the Girl Scouts of the United States of America’s “I Live My Faith” religious award, and collecting books was part of their project. Troops from the Perry Hall...Read More
WASHINGTON – Those who put stock in the expression “an idle brain is the devil’s workshop” can take heart that American Catholics won’t give the devil much to work with in a very busy 2008.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The relics venerated as the crib the baby Jesus used in a Bethlehem grotto are in an alarming state of degradation, some church officials said.Read More