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December 11, 2009

Execution wrong no matter the method, says Ohio Catholic official

COLUMBUS, Ohio - When Ohio inmate Kenneth Biros was executed Dec. 8 with a one-drug lethal injection - the first person in the U.S. to be executed in this manner - the Ohio Catholic Conference did not specifically address the execution but instead reiterated the church’s opposition to all means of capital punishment.
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December 9, 2009

After Philippine massacre, some bishops say short-term martial law OK

COTABATO CITY, Philippines – Bishops in the southern Philippines said they would tolerate martial law for a short time, providing it is not abused, following the massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao province.
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December 8, 2009

Amid violence, Catholics in northern Pakistan plan quiet Christmas

LAHORE, Pakistan – Catholics in northern Pakistan are preparing for quiet, scaled-back Christmas celebrations as militant attacks continue to terrorize the country.
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December 5, 2009

Archdiocese mourns passing of Monsignor Tinder, 67

Monsignor F. Dennis Tinder died Dec. 4, days after his retirement as pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish in Towson.
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December 2, 2009

Bridgeport Diocese releases documents on abuse case to newspapers

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – The Diocese of Bridgeport announced Dec. 1 it has released thousands of pages of court documents related to clergy sexual abuse cases that were settled in 2001.
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November 30, 2009

Two city parishes to host gun turn-in-days

Coming off the success of more than 50 guns turned in at a West Baltimore church in September, but concerned that gun violence in the city remains high, St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church will sponsor its eighth “Gun Turn-In Day” Dec. 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the church at 1542 N....
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November 30, 2009

Swiss bishops criticize country’s ban on construction of minarets

VATICAN CITY — The bishops of Switzerland said the country’s ban on the construction of minarets, the Muslim prayer towers, represents an obstacle to interreligious harmony.
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November 26, 2009

Soldier killed in Afghanistan is remembered as Renaissance man

As more than 800 mourners sang “America the Beautiful” and the bells of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen tolled on a sunny Nov. 21 afternoon, Toni Coffland silently reached out and touched the gray casket that held her 43-year-old son, Christopher.
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November 22, 2009

Monsignor Armstrong, longtime rector of cathedral, set to retire

When Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien referred to the rector of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen as “the indomitable, irrepressible Monsignor Robert Armstrong,” hundreds of parishioners interrupted the archbishop’s Nov. 15 cathedral homily with applause.
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November 20, 2009

Mass at St. Alphonsus Turkey Bowl

Father Gerard Francik, Father Richard B. Hilgartner, Father Michael S. Triplett and Monsignor Arthur W. Bastress will celebrate a Mass for Thanksgiving at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 26 at the Shrine of St. Alphonsus in Baltimore, prior to the annual Turkey Bowl between Calvert Hall College High School and Loyola Blakefield.
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November 19, 2009

Clarksville pastor remembers VMI cadet

St. Louis in Clarksville is mourning the loss of John Alexander Evans, a 19-year-old parishioner who died Nov. 7 after completing a 10-mile road march at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington.
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November 17, 2009

Father Paul M. Murphy, C.M. dies

A funeral Mass for Vincentian Father Paul Michael Murphy was offered Nov. 16 at St. Joseph in Emmitsburg. Father Murphy, in residence at St. Joseph since 2007, suffered a fatal heart attack Nov. 12.
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