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Loyola grad Dessi preaches social media in “exploding” world
Feb 10 2012
As managing partner of New York-based Drive Action Digital, a Web development company, and chief managing officer of social media innovator, The Athletes Network, Chris Dessi has precious little time. But, the Loyola University Maryland graduate is also a husband, father and author of a book that reached No. 1 on Amazon’s list of Hot New Releases in January.

‘I think we’ve found the key’: Welcome to new digital format for Catholic Review Media
Jan 24 2012
After 18 months of planning and untold hours of work, this week we launched new formats for the Catholic Review. Our new print edition arrived in mailboxes around Maryland this week, and the same day, our completion re-envisioned website landed on computer screens and tablets everywhere.

Advocates say tough new state laws make immigration reform more urgent
Jan 18 2012
SALT LAKE CITY – The repressive immigration law passed last year by the Georgia General Assembly, which The New York Times called “one of the nation’s toughest,” was what brought Frank Mulcahy, executive director of the Georgia Catholic Conference, to Utah in mid-January.

Catholic CEO goes undercover for CBS reality series
Jan 04 2012
WASHINGTON – Dina Dwyer-Owens, CEO of the Dwyer Group, a collection of home service franchises, donned a wig, pearls and blue jeans to check in on her employees for an upcoming episode of the CBS reality series “Undercover Boss.” And, by and large, she liked what she saw.

Arab Spring uprising roils Middle East region, opens new era
Dec 30 2011
WASHINGTON – What turned out to be a yearlong Arab Spring of grass-roots uprisings in 2011 left several countries with new leadership and a death toll in the tens of thousands, most from a full-scale civil war in Libya.

Bishops’ concerns rise over growing infringements on religious liberty
Dec 28 2011
WASHINGTON – Concerns that religious liberty is being eroded by government action and policymaking prompted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to open a campaign in 2011 to head off what they consider dangers to the rights of people of faith and conscience.

Hackett looks back on ‘adrenaline-filled’ career helping those in need
Dec 27 2011
BALTIMORE – When Ken Hackett graduated from Boston College with a business degree in 1968, he expected to work in the corporate world, handling big money accounts, maybe at the phone company that employed his dad.

Immigration action in 2011 came in the states and courts
Dec 26 2011
WASHINGTON – With a politically divided Congress putting immigration on the don’t-even-bother list of stagnate legislation, action on the subject in 2011 fell to state legislatures and federal courts – where challenges focused on whether states have the right to act on immigration.

US bishops to study 50-state approach to immigration at Utah conference
Dec 25 2011
SALT LAKE CITY - A three-day conference on issues faced by Catholic advocates of comprehensive immigration reform is scheduled for Jan. 11-13 in Salt Lake City. The conference is sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network.

Midnight Masses canceled in Iraq because of growing security concerns
Dec 23 2011
LONDON - Chaldean Catholic officials have canceled traditional Christmas Eve midnight Masses because of security risks.

Country star wanted newest album to sound ‘like you were in church’
Dec 21 2011
WASHINGTON – Collin Raye, the Catholic country singer who had a string of hits in the 1990s, said he wanted to make his latest album “feel like you were in church for an hour or so.”

Vatican partners with company to discuss stem-cell research
Nov 08 2011
VATICAN CITY – New biotechnologies raise questions in the fields of medicine, economics, ethics and philosophy, and the Vatican plans to look at all of them during a three-day conference devoted to adult stem-cell research, officials said.

Bishops’ agenda more devoted to internal matters than to societal ills
Nov 06 2011
WASHINGTON – The U.S. bishops’ fall general assembly in Baltimore will be shorter than usual and focus primarily on the inner workings of the church than on larger societal issues.

Catholic schools receive major accreditation
Oct 26 2011
Sixty schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Department of Schools have been accredited by AdvancEd, a division of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Council on Accreditation and School Improvement, the world’s largest accrediting and school improvement organization.

Organized crime highlights corruption in some Latin American countries
Oct 16 2011
MEXICO CITY – Federal officials denounced the arson attack on the Casino Royale in Monterrey, Mexico, as an act of terror and blamed Los Zetas, the soldiers-turned-cartel-toughs and public-security scourge.