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February 10, 2009

Be respectful in discourse

Honest discourse is healthy and very much needed in this country. I found several well written articles (CR, Jan. 29) that provided critical, favorable, as well as hopeful opinions of the new president. So consider my dismay and disappointment that The Catholic Review chose to print letters attacking African-American Catholic writers for being inspired by...
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February 9, 2009

Migrants’ transfer to tent facility criticized as humiliating stunt

PHOENIX – As print and broadcast journalists watched and a news helicopter flew overhead, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s department marched some 200 undocumented immigrants in 15 minutes from the Durango Jail complex to a segregated area in the “Tent City” detention center.
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February 6, 2009

Bullet causes lockdown on Mount campus

A bullet was found lodged in a dorm-room window on the campus of Mount St. Mary’s University Feb. 6.
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February 6, 2009

Iraqis frustrated over flawed voter registration, says peace activist

WASHINGTON – Although provincial elections in Iraq were held without major attacks or violence, an American peace activist said there were tensions and frustration over flawed voter registration.
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February 6, 2009

Baffled by FOCA article

I am completely baffled by “Catholic health care is not threatened by FOCA” (CR, Feb. 5). The article reads like a pro-choice defense of FOCA. The main support comes from a Sister Carol Keehan (CHA president and CEO) who states that even if a federal law were to mandate that all hospitals provide abortion services,...
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February 5, 2009

Government site helps seniors navigate red tape

Even though there are multitudes of governmental services that benefit seniors, it’s not always easy navigating the bureaucracy.
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February 5, 2009

87-year-old parishioner gives back

When Mary Chesnavage ran the lunch program at Sacred Heart of Mary School in Graceland Park, students ate nothing but the best.
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February 4, 2009

USCCB president calls bishop’s Holocaust remarks ‘offensive,’ ‘false’

WASHINGTON – Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, labeled as “deeply offensive and utterly false” remarks denying the Holocaust made by a formerly schismatic bishop whose excommunication was lifted in January by Pope Benedict XVI.
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February 3, 2009

Consultations to focus on future of Catholic schools

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will unveil his vision for Catholic education’s future in two closed-door consultation meetings Feb. 10 and 12 at St. John the Evangelist in Columbia.
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February 3, 2009

Schools should have been closed on inauguration day

The recent article “Catholics to tune in for inauguration” (CR, Jan. 15) was both interesting and disappointing. The decision rendered to keep schools open on inauguration day bespoke of cultural inadequacy and the added policy of recording a student’s absence as “unexcused” raised once again gross insensitivity. The policy served as a barrier of evangelization...
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January 30, 2009

Vatican and traditionalists: A story whose end has not been written

VATICAN CITY – In the long-standing conflict between the Vatican and the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, Pope Benedict XVI has been a key figure in reconciliation efforts that, so far, have always fallen short.
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January 28, 2009

The story of Joe-Joe

Parables come packaged in different ways. Mine often come in the form of cats and dogs! Allow me to share some leftover stories from the holidays.
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