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January 26, 2009

Pope lifts excommunications of Lefebvrite bishops

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the excommunication of four bishops ordained against papal orders in 1988 by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The move was considered a major concession to the archbishop’s traditionalist followers.
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January 23, 2009

Maryland was complex state during Lincoln era

I enjoyed reading “Catholic press reflected disdain for Lincoln in Maryland,” (CR, Jan. 15) but believe the article oversimplified the highly complex geopolitical situation of Maryland in the 1860s.
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January 23, 2009

Catholic High engineers a new course for students

Like many high school students starting their senior year, Rachel Berry has a high interest in a particular college major.
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January 21, 2009

Vatican Embassy in Venezuela attacked with tear-gas bombs

CARACAS, Venezuela – The Vatican Embassy in Caracas was attacked with tear-gas bombs amid rising tensions over a vote to amend the constitution, Catholic officials said.
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January 21, 2009

MCC lauds governor’s move against death penalty

Gov. Martin J. O’Malley may help break a logjam in the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee by introducing his own legislation repealing the death penalty.
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January 20, 2009

Pro-confederacy clergy dominated in the South

The feature (CR, Jan. 15) regarding Abraham Lincoln and reactions to his policies in Maryland was most interesting.
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January 20, 2009

Don’t revere a president who supports abortion

I was extremely distraught by the Ralph E. Moore Jr. column (CR, Jan. 15). I find it hard to believe that a Catholic newspaper could have condoned such a thing. Are Catholics really this ignorant to place Obama next to real prophets like John the Baptist and Moses? Even comparing him to Martin Luther King...
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January 16, 2009

Once controversial, U.S.-Vatican relations mark silver anniversary

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican and the United States quietly celebrated a silver anniversary in mid-January, marking 25 years of formal diplomatic relations.
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January 13, 2009

Catholic chief justice will administer oath again

Barack Obama will take the presidential oath of office Jan. 20 with the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used at his March 4, 1861, inauguration.
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January 12, 2009

Chicago Archdiocese pays $2.6 million to settle two more abuse cases

CHICAGO – The Archdiocese of Chicago agreed in December to pay out $2.6 million to settle two cases of clergy sexual abuse.
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January 8, 2009

Archdiocese: Mexico’s Fox didn’t get special treatment for annulment

MEXICO CITY – The Archdiocese of Leon has denied that former Mexican President Vicente Fox was given preferential treatment over the annulment of his first marriage.
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January 7, 2009

More than two dozen US bishops could retire for age reasons in 2009

WASHINGTON – Following the Jan. 5 retirements of 78-year-old Cardinal Adam J. Maida of Detroit and Bishop John J. McRaith of Owensboro, Ky., up to 27 more U.S. bishops, including three cardinals, could retire because of age this year.
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