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January 19, 2012
January 19, 2012

Charity not a government function

Tony Magliano (CR, March 24) suffers from hubris, because he presumes that he can determine the stains on the souls of others. His denunciation of not increasing taxes on the rich ignores easily observed facts. As a group, homeless people do not hire employees. Increasing taxes decreases tax revenue. For example, Maryland’s millionaire’s tax resulted...
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January 19, 2012

Restrain anti-union rhetoric

George Weigel is (CR, March 24) brings up the canard that “Tens of thousands of inner city children are being denied a quality education today because of the intransigence of the teachers unions.” I favor voucher programs, but am against using the inability of school systems to educate according to an unattainable standard as the...
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January 19, 2012

Missionaries of Charity provide guidance, haven to Baltimore children

The Missionaries of Charity, the order of religious women founded by Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, came to Baltimore in 1992, establishing the “Gift of Hope” in the former St. Wenceslaus Parish convent.
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January 19, 2012

Rome expecting at least 300,000 pilgrims for John Paul’s beatification

ROME – Church and local government organizers are planning to accommodate at least 300,000 people in St. Peter’s Square and the surrounding area for Pope John Paul II’s beatification Mass May 1.
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January 19, 2012

Parishes and schools reach out to Japan

Parishes and schools throughout the archdiocese are pulling together to pray for and help the people of Japan following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that struck the island nation.
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January 19, 2012

Robert Twynham, acclaimed Baltimore composer and musician, dies at 80

Robert Twynham, an internationally known composer of liturgical music and the longtime music director at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland, died March 23. He was 80. A memorial Mass is being planned for early May at Corpus Christi in Baltimore, his home parish.
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January 19, 2012

Ferraro dies; was first woman to seek vice presidency for major party

BOSTON – Geraldine Ferraro, a lawyer and former congresswoman who in 1984 became the first woman to seek the vice presidency on a major political party ticket, died March 26 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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January 19, 2012

Government is not ‘brother’s keeper’

Tony Magliano (CR, March 24) has his priorities backward. We are our brother’s keeper, and should be especially mindful of this during Lent. It is not the deeply indebted and broke federal government’s responsibility to help the needy – it’s ours.
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January 19, 2012

Baltimore-based CRS announces it is resuming its food program in Western Darfur

Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services has announced that is resuming operations in Western Darfur more than two months after evacuating its staff.
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January 19, 2012

Mount St. Joseph alum returns from Japan after quake

Chris Godish calls it the most terrifying experience of his life. The 32-year-old English teacher and Mount St. Joseph alum was working with students at a middle school in Takahagi City, Japan, when the March 11 magnitude-9 earthquake struck. Godish couldn’t stay on his feet as he, other teachers and students were tossed by the...
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January 19, 2012

Fourth-graders at School of the Incarnation in Gambrills relish Maryland Day

GAMBRILLS – As a third-grader last year at School of the Incarnation, Regan Zeeser watched with curiosity and a tinge of jealousy as its fourth-grade classes celebrated Maryland Day.
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January 19, 2012

Father John J. Dietzen, leading question-and-answer columnist, dies

PEORIA, Ill. – Father John J. Dietzen, the foremost question-and-answer columnist in the Catholic press for 35 years, died March 27 at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria. He was 83.
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