Byrd announced as new Carroll Football Coach
Carroll High School has selected current assistant coach and social studies teacher Cody Byrd as the varsity football team’s eighth head. Byrd takes over all football operations, effectively immediately, replacing former head coach Ben Rulli ’03 who resigned from the position in January. Since joining the football program in August …
Being Pro Life: The pervasive problem of human trafficking
When cops busted up a drug/prostitution ring, they found a 17-year-old girl being sex-trafficked, carrying a stuffed animal and keeping a private journal of “bad things.” She had been given drugs to make her addicted and dependent on the pimps, and had been severely sexually traumatized. At her hearing, due …
‘Jesus walks with us, we’ll walk with him,’ USCCB president says
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — At the last Mass of the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo told hundreds of participants who were preparing to talk later to their representatives in Congress that "Jesus walks with us" when doing the social ministry of …
In memoriam — Gaspar Romero, brother of St. Oscar Romero
IMAGE: CNS photo/RhinaGuidos By Carlos Colorado On Feb. 2, Santos Gaspar Romero Galdamez, 88, the younger brother of Salvadoran Archbishop St. Oscar Romero, died in San Salvador, El Salvador. Gaspar Romero was the last of eight children of Santos Romero and Guadalupe Galdamez, and one of only two who lived …
Pope, on flight, talks about dialogue, war, abuse of women religious
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (CNS) — Pope Francis told reporters he is more afraid of the consequences of not engaging in interreligious dialogue than he is of being manipulated by some Muslim leaders. He told reporters flying …
Creative cuisine lessons help whip up self-reliant seminarians
IMAGE: CNS photo/Katie Rutter By Katie Rutter ST. MEINRAD, Ind. (CNS) — Familiar sounds of sizzling meat and clanging cutlery associated with food preparation offered a different kind of doctrine than one might expect in a third-floor classroom at St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. Inside, several seminarians stood …
Community land trusts a possible answer for escalating housing costs
IMAGE: CNS photo/Gregory Scruggs, Reuters By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — Community land trusts are celebrating their 50th anniversary in the United States in 2019, and Catholic figures had a role in their development. Based on a concept developed by Mahatma Gandhi in India, these kinds of land trusts were …
In response to global warming, the idea of personal sacrifice resurfaces
IMAGE: CNS photo/George Frey By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — A major scientific report by 13 federal agencies that concludes that climate change poses dire economic consequences to the United States and already is affecting the well being of people serves as a warning that demands action to protect the …
Update: Supreme Court asked to put Louisiana abortion law on hold
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily put on hold a state law restricting Louisiana abortion providers. The law, which was set to take effect Feb. 4, requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 …
TV film fare — week of Feb. 17, 2019
By John Mulderig VATICAN CITY (CNS) — It is not easy living with cancer, but there is always some kind of victory that awaits each person on the horizon, Pope Francis told young oncology patients from Poland. "Your journey in life is a bit difficult, dear children, because you have …