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January 19, 2012

A Leader with Heart

Odds are that the 1,800 or so people who jammed the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore early in October will long remember the occasion, and the installation that day of Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien as the 15th Archbishop of Baltimore. That’s true, I know, any time a bishop is welcomed to a new...
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January 19, 2012

Reflecting on 40 years of priesthood

Forty is a number of biblical significance – Jesus spent 40 days in the desert and for 40 years the people of Israel wandered in the desert.
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January 19, 2012

Priest feels frustration, sees hope in villages high in Peru’s Andes

PAMPAROMAS, Peru – Father David Johnson viewed the barren mountains towering over his parish with a mixture of sadness, frustration and hope.
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January 19, 2012

Religion analyzed as a factor in presidential race

WASHINGTON – In contrast to the 2000 and 2004 presidential election cycles, when some saw Republican candidates as too cozy with religious leaders and too willing to bring their faith into the public sphere, this year’s GOP candidates for president have been relatively quiet on the topic of religion.
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January 19, 2012

Pope Benedict beatifies Pope John Paul ‘because of his faith’

VATICAN CITY - “John Paul II is blessed because of his faith - a strong, generous and apostolic faith,” Pope Benedict XVI said May 1 just minutes after formally beatifying his predecessor.
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January 19, 2012

Jan. 1 is the feast of Mary, Mother of God

January 1 marks the feast of the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God. The holy day of obligation falls on a Thursday this year. According to the Dictionary of the Liturgy, “this feast recognized Mary as the physical parent of Christ, the God-Man, defined at the Council of Ephesus in the fifth century.
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January 19, 2012

Recovering alcoholic finds solace making rosaries

When Ralph Petti reflects on the rosaries and chaplets he crafts, the recovering alcoholic likens the distinctive technique of the labor to his steps of sobriety – one bead and one prayer at a time.
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January 19, 2012

Inspiring story rescues man from darkest night

While venting about the excruciating pain he had been experiencing from being trampled by a horse at work, Luis realized that the pain throughout his body and the paralysis of his right hand may be permanent. How could he work? How would his wife and two daughters in Guatemala survive? Luis is uninsured and his...
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January 19, 2012

Blair praised for his Yale seminar examining globalization, religion

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Tony Blair has won praise – even from those who have publicly disagreed with him on the Iraq War – for a seminar about the interplay between globalization and religious faith that he just finished teaching this semester at Yale University.
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January 19, 2012

Thank you from Iraq

Thank you for the generous response to my request for support to our Service Members in Iraq. I must admit that I am overwhelmed with the response – it’s very touching to see 20 or more care packages arriving in my office weekly. This support of our Service Members is a great sign of your...
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January 19, 2012

Personal ordinariate for former Anglicans to reach nearly 1,000

LONDON – The first personal ordinariate created for former Anglicans who decided to enter the Catholic Church will reach almost 1,000 by the end of the Easter Vigil.
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January 19, 2012

Bishops say Zimbabwean president must be forced to step down

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe must be forced to step down, said the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
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