Knights’ donations, volunteer hours and members keep growing, CEO says August 8, 2018By Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, Local News, News Carl Anderson told the Knights at the annual gathering that they gave more than $185 million dollars to charity last year, an $8 million increase from the previous year and one of the largest yearly increases in the organization’s history.
Baltimore native named auxiliary bishop of Washington June 8, 2018By Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News Pope Francis has appointed a Baltimore native who grew up across the street from Memorial Stadium as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Washington.
Third federal judge rules on ending DACA; he says Trump acted legally March 7, 2018By Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Social Justice A federal judge in Maryland has ruled that President Donald Trump acted legally in ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, saying “the decision to wind down DACA in an orderly manner was rational.”
El Arzobispo Lori se une al llamado de los obispos de E.E.U.U. para salvar a DACA February 21, 2018By Catholic News Service Filed Under: En Español, Local News, News, Social Justice, World News “Nuestra fe nos mueve a estar con los vulnerables, incluidos nuestros hermanos y hermanas inmigrantes… Ahora debemos mostrar nuestro apoyo y solidaridad de una manera especial,” dijeron los obispos.
Archbishop Lori supports call-in day to urge Congress to save DACA February 21, 2018By Catholic News Service Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Local News, News “We are deeply disappointed that the Senate was not able to come together in a bipartisan manner to secure legislative protection for the Dreamers,” the USCCB officials said in a joint statement Feb. 19.
Grisez called ‘remarkable man’ whose work was ‘utterly true to the faith’ February 7, 2018By Catholic News Service Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries, Western Vicariate The late Germain Grisez, an influential Catholic philosopher, ethicist and moral theologian, was “a remarkable man” and a “very firm believer” whose faith “was unswervingly orthodox,” Jesuit Father Peter Ryan said Feb. 6.
Pezullo, who oversaw CRS’ move to Baltimore, dies at 91 August 7, 2017By Catholic News Service Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Coming to CRS after a career in the U.S. Foreign Service, Pezzullo is credited with taking the agency “to a new level of professionalism and impact”
Cardinal jeered at housing session February 13, 2017By Catholic News Service Filed Under: Local News Lawrence Cardinal Shehan of Baltimore testified on behalf of a proposed fair housing ordinance to the tune of jeers and catcalls from a boisterous minority segment of the audience.
Cardinal-designate O’Brien used to new and varied assignments January 6, 2012By Catholic News Service Filed Under: Local News, News WASHINGTON – The priestly ministry of Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, named a cardinal Jan. 6 by Pope Benedict XVI, has been marked by frequent assignments, so that he rarely stays in one place very long. And even when he is ensconced somewhere for a while, he gets to moving.
Catholic Church has evolving answer on reality of Adam and Eve September 5, 2011By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, World News Catholic scholars, along with mainstream Protestant scholars, see in the primal stories of Genesis not literal history but symbolic, metaphoric stories which express basic truths about the human condition and humans.
Father Corapi says he won’t leave Montana to live with order in Texas July 11, 2011By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, World News Father John Corapi said he will not follow the order of his religious superior to leave his home in Montana to live in community with his fellow priests.
Order accuses Father Corapi of sexual, financial wrongdoing, falsehoods July 11, 2011By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, World News Father John A. Corapi was involved in “years of cohabitation” with a former prostitute, repeated abuse of alcohol and drugs and “serious violation” of his promise of poverty, according to a fact-finding team appointed by his religious order.
