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June 28, 2007

Wedding date 07/07/07 holds significance for St. Margaret couple

When St. Margaret, Bel Air, parishioners Danielle Giannone and Jonathan “Rocky” Phillips were choosing a wedding date, they wanted the numbers to complement the day of their first rendezvous – which was 02/02/02. Though engaged in early 2006, the admittedly superstitious 20somethings promptly ruled out 06/06/06 as the day that would forever be associated with...
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June 27, 2007

Waiting to be attacked first is costly

The perspective by George Weigel on June 21 contains a very important point about pre-emptive attacks when waging a just war: “... a crucial moral point: faced with certain aggression, responsible public authorities need not wait for the aggressor’s first blow to fall.” Weigel is entirely correct about this; no teaching of the Catholic Church...
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June 26, 2007

Pope says two-thirds majority always needed to elect pope

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has stipulated that a two-thirds majority always is required to elect a new pope, undoing a more flexible procedure introduced by Pope John Paul II.
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June 26, 2007

Plenary indulgences offered to those attending Expo

Those attending the 17th-Annual Catholic Family Expo at the Baltimore Convention Center June 28 to July 1 will have an opportunity to obtain a plenary indulgence.
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June 25, 2007

Where are the priorities?

On Monday, June 18, a Howard County police officer succumbed to injuries he received in a traffic stop from last week.
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June 22, 2007

Baltimore Catholic school graduate celebrates 50 years as priest

Monsignor Maurice Shields, a 1943 graduate of St. Brigid School, Canton, and a 1947 graduate of Calvert Hall College High School, then located in Baltimore, recently celebrated his Golden Anniversary as a priest in Mobile, Ala.
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June 22, 2007

St. Michael carnival continues June 29

The annual Catholic Community of St. Michael and St. Patrick, Fells Point, carnival will continue with its second and last weekend June 29-July 1 at the corner of E. Lombard and S. Wolfe streets.
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June 22, 2007

Deacon John J. Briscoe dies at 81

A funeral Mass for Deacon John J. Briscoe of Baltimore, was offered June 25 at St. Peter Claver, Baltimore. Deacon Briscoe – who had suffered from heart problems and high blood pressure – died June 17 at Levindale Geriatric Center and Hospital in Baltimore. He was 81.
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June 22, 2007

Mercy Medical moves forward in new patient tower

In January, Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, is expected to begin construction and site excavation for a new $400 million patient tower with an anticipated completion date of fall of 2010. According to Thomas Mullen, president and CEO of Mercy Medical Center, the current tower, which was designed in the 1950s, is beginning to “age out,”...
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June 22, 2007

Priests have a tough job

So, “a growing number of the faithful” are responsible for the “demoralizing of priests” in the aftermath of the sexual abuse of minors in the church (CR, June 21)?
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June 18, 2007

Kurt Waldheim, former U.N. secretary-general, dies

VATICAN CITY – Kurt Waldheim, former U.N. secretary-general and president of Austria, died June 14 at the age of 88. The longtime diplomat, who died of heart failure in his home in Vienna, Austria, had been a controversial figure for his World War II role as an officer in the German army, and Vatican interaction...
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June 15, 2007

Lenten Appeal exceeds $6 million goal

The Cardinal’s Lenten Appeal exceeded its $6 million goal for 2007, marking the first time the Archdiocese of Baltimore has met and surpassed its annual fundraising benchmark in its 16-year history.
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