Updated: Mount St. Joseph mourns revered president

Ever the poetic soul, Xaverian Brother James M. Kelly died as the sun was rising Dec. 3, the feast day of his congregation’s patron, St. Francis Xavier.
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Mount de Sales to build field, fine arts center

CATONSVILLE – When Beth Saverino was a Mount de Sales Academy student during the 1980s, she said students heard rumors of the Catonsville school closing.
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Is TV phasing out?

WASHINGTON – In our media-saturated society, this rates as man-bites-dog news.
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Downes happy to be home at O’Dwyer Retreat House

Michael Downes has come back home to the Monsignor O’Dwyer Retreat House.
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Changes in parishes coming for Detroit Archdiocese beginning 2012

DETROIT – Nine metro Detroit parishes will close over the next five years if Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron accepts the recommendations a mostly lay advisory board approved Nov. 30.
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Criticism grows over Rhode Island governor’s ‘holiday tree’ label

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A 17-foot Colorado blue spruce is standing tall at the center of controversy in the Rhode Island Statehouse rotunda for what it is being – or more importantly, not being – called.
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Black Catholics’ survey finds strong ties, strong engagement in church

WASHINGTON – African-American Catholics are much more engaged in their church on a variety of levels than are white Catholics, concludes the first National Black Catholic Survey.
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Religious advocacy measured less in dollars than in effectiveness

WASHINGTON – The degree to which religiously based organizations push for change in Washington will likely always be open to debate and differing interpretations, but the truer measure may be their effectiveness, even in the midst of a cranky Congress dealing with cash-short coffers.
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Catholic campaign aims to bring Catholics back to church

ATLANTA – A new advertising campaign aims to bring Catholics back to church with ads airing on major television networks Dec. 16-Jan. 8.
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University of Arkansas football player recalled as ‘an amazing soul’

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Catholic community in Little Rock and Fayetteville joined the rest of the state in mourning the death of University of Arkansas football player Garrett Uekman.
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Vatican exhibit displays inspirational elements of Gaudi church

VATICAN CITY – Without leaving the Vatican, visitors exiting St. Peter’s Basilica can gain firsthand exposure to another impressive church, Antoni Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia.
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HHS defends decision on funding trafficking victims program to Congress

WASHINGTON – A U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops program aiding victims of human trafficking was denied funding after its administrators declined to propose alternatives to a government requirement that female victims receive “the full range of legally permissible gynecological and obstetric care,” a Department of Health and Human Services official told a congressional committee.
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