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PATIENT WRITES OUT PRAYERS AT JERUSALEM HOSPICE FACILITY � Sister Constancia Francis, 82, writes out prayers as therapist Tammy Einstein, center, consults with another staff member at Saint-Louis Hospital in Jerusalem March 22. The facility, run by the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition, provides hospice and geriatric care to Jerusalem residents of any race, religion or nationality. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill)

Hospice offers care for Christians, Muslims, Jews
Catholic News Service
4/2/2007, by Judith Sudilovsky

JERUSALEM (CNS) � When Sister Monika Dullmann first came as a volunteer to Saint-Louis Hospital as a young theologian, the most difficult task she faced was watching terminally ill patients suffer. Sister Monika, now the hospital director, said 20 years of experience has taught her that she may ...

WOMAN PARTICIPATES IN SEDER MEAL � Sandra Steele lifts a cup of grape juice, symbolizing wine, during a Seder meal at St. Thomas More Church in Munster, Ind., March 24. The Seder is a special ritual during the Jewish festival of Passover, a holiday commemorating Jewish deliverance from Egyptian bondage and the time of the barley season. Many Catholics participate in a Seder during the season of Lent. (CNS/Northwest Indiana Catholic)

Holy Week Passover Seder connects Catholics to the Last Supper, Jews
Arkansas Catholic
3/26/2007, by Marilyn Lanford

ROGERS, Ark. (Arkansas Catholic) - In the past two decades, there has been a growing interest for Catholics in the significance and symbolism found in the Jewish celebration of Passover, Judaism's oldest festival. Passover refers to God�s deliverance of the Jews from slavery in Egypt as described ...

CHILD OF WAR - A refugee from the war in El Salvador looks into the camera lens of Mary Carty, who visited refugee camps in El Salvador and Honduras in 1986. (Mary Carty)

Haunting faces of war � Journalist asks 'where are its victims now'
Catholic Online
3/23/2007, by Mary Carty

COLCHESTER, Vt. (Catholic Online) � The fourth anniversary of the Iraqi invasion by U.S. troops is a reminder of another anniversary related to the tragedy of war. March 24 marks the 27th anniversary of the assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was gunned down in El Salvador ...

$7.00 NETS OFFERED AS PREVENTION AGAINST MALARIA- Fatou Dibba and her daughter keep mosquitoes away by sleeping under a net provided by CRS. (Photo CRS)

$7.00 safety nets may save lives and reduce illness
Catholic Relief Services
3/21/2007

BALTIMORE, Md. (CRS) � Catholic Relief Services is issuing free, insecticide-treated bed nets to pregnant women and young children in coastal areas of the African nation of Gambia as part of a five-year malaria prevention and control program, funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis ...

SPRING TRAINING FUND RAISER - Reene Bertone cleans the bleachers March 1 at Maryvale Stadium where the Milwaukee Brewers hold spring training. She staffs the games with dozens of volunteers to raise money for St. Vincent de Paul Parish. (The Catholic Sun)

A big hit - Spring training baseball drives in funds for Catholic groups
The Catholic Sun
3/19/2007, by Ambria Hammel

PHOENIX, Ariz. (The Catholic Sun) � While millions of Americans donned green clothing and accessories March 17, some men from St. Patrick Parish here have been sporting it all month. Clad in their volunteer uniform � a dark green polo shirt and baseball cap � the Scottsdale parish�s Men�s Club runs ...

GIRL SWEEPS COURTYARD OF MISSION FOR CHILDREN IN PERU
A girl sweeps the courtyard of a mission for children in Puerto Ocopa, Peru, Feb. 13. Five Franciscan sisters care for nearly 100 children at the mission. Children arrive at the mission under different circumstances. Some come when they are newborns, wh ile others are left at the mission because their families don't have enough food. (CNS photo/Barbara Fraser)

Franciscan Mission cares for needy Peruvian children
Catholic News Service
3/13/2007, by Barbara J. Fraser

PUERTO OCOPA, Peru (CNS) � The morning mist still clings to the trees as more than a dozen girls line up on wooden pews in the chapel of an old Franciscan mission, and under the gaze of a statue of Jesus dressed in a white robe with bands of red, green and purple well-suited to the tropical climate ...

MEMBERS OF MUSIC BAND BOYS OF THE LOUGH � Brenden Begley, Dave Richardson, Malcom Stitt, Cathal McConnell (with glasses) and Kevin Henderson are members of the Celtic music band Boys of the Lough. Even after playing professionally for 40 years, Catholic member Cathal McConnell, a flutist and vocalist for the band, finds there are some songs that are too sensitive to make the group's repertoire, namely those about religion and politics. (CNS/courtesy of Boys of the Lough)

Religion, politics still too touchy a subject for Celtic band
Catholic News Service
3/5/2007, by Mark Pattison

WASHINGTON (CNS) � Even after playing professionally for 40 years, Cathal McConnell, a flutist and vocalist for the Celtic music band Boys of the Lough, finds there are some songs that are too sensitive to make the group's repertoire. They deal with the dicey relationship between religion and ...

Los Angeles parish's food pantry helps build community
Catholic News Service
2/27/2007, by Bill Stephens

LOS ANGELES (CNS) � A young Hispanic woman edged her shopping cart through the food pantry line at St. Margaret Mary Alacocque Church, pausing at the pastry table. Volunteer Jill Lotta smiled. "You can choose three items." "Tres?" "Yes. Tres." The woman's eyes grew moist and she ...

CATHOLIC WRONGLY CONVICTED OF MURDER GESTURES � Kirk Bloodsworth, who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of a 9-year-old Rosedale, Md., girl in 1985, gestures during an interview at his home in Cambridge, Md., in late January. Bloodsworth, who became a Catholic while on death row in Maryland, was exonerated by DNA evidence in 1993. Since then he has devoted his life to ending the death penalty. (Catholic Review)

Freed Catholic death row inmate devotes life to end death penalty
The Catholic Review
2/26/2007, by George P. Matysek Jr.

CAMBRIDGE, Md. (Catholic Review) � If anyone has experienced sheer terror, it�s Kirk Bloodsworth. Tried and found guilty of the brutal rape and murder of a 9-year-old Rosedale girl, the barrel-chested crabber from the Eastern Shore was sentenced to die in the gas chamber for his horrific crimes. ...

FILE PHOTO OF CROSS DRAPED IN PURPLE OUTSIDE CHURCH DURING LENT - A cloudy evening sky provides the backdrop for a cross outside St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y., during Lent last April. The penitential season, which begins with Ash Wednesday, calls Christians to prayer, fasting, repentance and charity. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, Long Island Catholic)

Honing 40/40 vision - Live Lent�s 40 days with 40 faith-building ways
Catholic Online
2/21/2007, by Mary Carty

COLCHESTER, Vt. (Catholic Online) � The season of Lent brings to mind thoughts of reflection, fasting and �giving up.� Lent can also be thought of as a wonder-full opportunity to take 40 days - or what is left of them - to make desired life changes that may have been set aside due to ultra-busy ...

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