R.E. Congress: Looking for the light
The Tidings
3/9/2008, by Paula Doyle, Ellie Hidalgo and Sister Nancy Munro, CSJ
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (The Tidings) - More than 40,000 participants stepping over the threshold of this year’s Religious Education Congress in Anaheim Feb. 28-March 2 were encouraged in numerous workshops and multicultural liturgies to raise their sights and spirits toward envisioning a ...
Catholics join call for payday loan reform
Catholic Universe Bulletin
3/10/2008, by Kevin E. Brown
CLEVELAND, OH (Catholic Universe Bulletin) - The Catholic Conference of Ohio has joined the state’s religious leaders in a campaign for payday lending reform. Speaking at a February 26 Ohio Coalition Responsible Lending news conference, six religious leaders urged Ohio voters to support House Bill ...
‘Definition of marriage’ issue awaits opinion of California’s Supreme Court on gay ‘rights’
Catholic San Francisco
3/7/2008, by Rick DelVecchio
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (Catholic San Francisco) - The California Supreme Court’s upcoming opinion on the definition of marriage will mark a step in a national debate that remains far from settled, according to a law professor who audited the high court’s March 4 hearing in San Francisco on the ...
‘Growing Up Catholic’ in mid-20th century: Nuns in habits provided great formation
The Catholic Moment
3/7/2008, by Kevin Cullen
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (The Catholic Moment) - Millions of middle-aged and older Catholics remember Sister Mary Margaret, their third-grade teacher. She told gory stories about the martyrs, lived and breathed The Baltimore Catechism, and made you hold your nose to the blackboard if you didn’t do your ...
Nun lives ‘on the margins’ in Appalachia
The Catholic Virginian
3/6/2008, by Jean Denton
RICHMOND, Va. (The Catholic Virginian) - The old man wistfully looked out from his front porch in St. Charles, Virginia, an Appalachian community eviscerated by decades of coal production. “You know, they came in here and they took our trees and they took our coal,” he said, “but I thought there ...
Los Angeles home for unwed mothers now a family center to address ‘the bigger picture’
The Tidings
3/6/2008, by Paula Doyle
LOS ANGELES, CA (The Tidings) - A century ago, when the Ford Motor Company first introduced its classic Model T touring car and before women’s suffrage, St. Anne’s maternity home for unwed pregnant women was founded by Bishop Thomas Conaty in Los Angeles. From modest beginnings as a small, safe ...
Arguments mount for a nat'l healthcare system
The Christian Science Monitor
3/5/2008, by David R. Francis
BOSTON, Mass. (The Christian Science Monitor) - As advocates of healthcare reform see it, change in the United States healthcare system has become an economic necessity – not just socially desirable or politically popular. “It has to happen,” says Regina Herzlinger, an expert at the Harvard ...
Men abandon 'mediocre Catholicism'
The Catholic Sun
3/5/2008, by Rebecca Bostic
PHOENIX, Ariz. (The Catholic Sun) - While some guys were making Super Bowl party preparations, more than 700 Catholic men from across the Phoenix Diocese gathered for fellowship, adoration and to refocus on Christ.
The men joined Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted Feb. 2 at the Men’s Conference at Xavier ...
Bishop invites priests who left voluntarily to return to ministry or seek laicization
The Catholic Virginian
3/4/2008, by Steve Neill
RICHMOND, Va (The Catholic Virginian) - Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo is extending an invitation to priests who have voluntarily left the active ministry to return to priestly ministry or take the first step in the process of laicization by which they would be made part of the laity. The Bishop is ...
How real men can be real Catholics
Catholic Herald
3/4/2008, by Brian T. Olszewski
WEST ALLIS, WI (Milwaukee Catholic Herald) - A facility known for showcasing super knives and magic mops for potential consumers during the Wisconsin State Fair was, on Feb. 23, a place in which Catholicism was showcased for more than 3,000 men. The second annual Men of Christ conference attracted ...
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