http://www.thebostonpilot.comOfficial newspaper of the Archdiocese of BostonWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Although John F. Kennedy's famous speech in Houston nearly 50 years ago could be seen as "a passionate appeal for tolerance," the candidate's remarks about how his Catholicism would affect his presidency "profoundly undermined the place ... of all religious believers in America's public life," said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11546http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11546PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CNS) -- Colonb Mitsuka was on a playground at Louverture Cleary School when the massive magnitude 7 earthquake shook Haiti Jan. 12, causing a cinder block to fall on her, significantly injuring her face. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11545http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11545 ORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) -- About 100 traditionalist Anglican parishes in the United States have decided to join the Catholic Church as a group. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11544http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11544 WARSAW, Poland (CNS) -- The brother of Pope Benedict XVI apologized to child victims of sexual abuse at his former school even though he said he was unaware of the alleged incidents. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11543http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11543WASHINGTON (CNS) -- When San Francisco passed an ordinance more than 13 years ago requiring agencies that contract with the city to provide spousal benefits to employees' domestic partners, then-Archbishop William J. Levada asked for a religious exemption, arguing that it imposed "an unconstitutional condition" on religiously affiliated organizations like Catholic Charities. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11542http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11542PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CNS) -- Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley, who traveled to Haiti as part of a March 1-3 tour of the earthquake-damaged Haitian capital as part of an advisory group from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, called the trip "a very moving experience" and praised the efforts that Catholic organizations are playing in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11524http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11524BRAINTREE -- Cardinal Seán O'Malley visited Haiti March 1-3 together with a delegation from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to evaluate the long term needs of the Church in Haiti as it deals with the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake. The cardinal spoke via telephone to The Pilot prior to his departure from the Port au Prince Airport March 3. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11523http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11523SOUTH END -- A sellout crowd of women, estimated at about 2,000, from parishes across the Archdiocese of Boston gathered for spiritual renewal and solidarity at the 5th annual Boston Catholic Women's Conference at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross Feb. 27. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11531http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11531WESTON -- Some would say art does not apply to running a business, but that is not so, according to a New Hampshire art professor. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11525http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11525SOUTH END -- Members of almost all scouting programs promise to honor God as they recite their promises and oaths at meetings. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11530http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11530Last Friday, I met with Lisa Alberghini of the Planning Office for Urban Affairs and John Noone, Chair of the Board, for our Annual Member Meeting. The Planning Office is a social justice ministry of the archdiocese that develops permanent affordable housing on behalf of the Church for people of limited means. We talked about work they are doing with Pine Street Inn that will provide permanent housing for the homeless in Boston's South End, and about a housing development they hope to begin working on soon in Dorchester with St. Mary's Women and Children's Center (another archdiocesan ministry). Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11522http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11522 WASHINGTON (CNS) -- As Democratic and Republican leaders gathered in Washington for a health care summit convened by President Barack Obama, the U.S. bishops and other Catholic leaders urged all parties to commit themselves to health care reform that is affordable, accessible and protects the life and dignity of every person. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11532http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11532 WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Catholic Charities of the Washington Archdiocese has told staff members that a new same-sex marriage law in the District of Columbia has forced the agency to make changes to its health care coverage for spouses of employees. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11517http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11517 NEW YORK (CNS) -- The largest Catholic hospital in New Hampshire is poised to effect a legal arrangement with a secular health provider that its supporters call a lease agreement and its detractors say is a takeover and an attack on life. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11518http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11518TYRINGHAM, Mass. (CNS) -- Four hundred years ago the Visitation Nuns didn't have a Web site. Nor did they release a musical CD. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11535http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11535PALO ALTO, Calif. (CNS) -- To watch Capuchin Father James Stump at work is to see a Christ-centered "ministry of presence" in action as a daily routine. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11537http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11537 LIMA, Peru (CNS) -- While media attention focuses on looting in Concepcion, the largest city near the epicenter of the magnitude 8.8 earthquake Feb. 27, Catholic Church workers struggle to reach quake victims in rural areas who are far from the spotlight. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11534http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11534VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI said that during his weeklong Lenten retreat he frequently prayed for all the victims of violence in Iraq, especially members of the country's Christian minority. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11533http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11533 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CNS) -- On her second medical mission to Haiti since the Jan. 12 earthquake, Patty Skoglund, a disaster response expert with Scripps Health in San Diego, sees an evolution in medical treatment taking place. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11536http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11536I gathered my reading material -- a book, a few documents that I had not yet, but wanted to read, and headed over to the church at 6:15 p.m. Vested for confessions, I went to the confessional, reading material in hand and closed the door behind me... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11526http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11526When I make presentations on end-of-life decision making, I sometimes have audience members approach me afterwards with comments like, "You know, Father, when my mom died 6 years ago, and I look back on it, I'm not sure my brothers and I made the right decisions about her care." Remarks like these serve to remind us how the circumstances surrounding death are important not only for the person who passes on but also for those who remain behind. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11527http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11527Thousands of saints die every year, but only a handful among this "cloud of witnesses" will be raised to the altars. This we remind ourselves of every All Saints Day. Every saint could be canonized, but very few saints are. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11528http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11528I've been at St. Maria Goretti in Lynnfield for almost six years. Whenever I have to tell someone where I work, invariably they ask how to spell "Goretti." Now I just say, "One R and two T's." I imagine that people from St. Athanasius and Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha have it even worse. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11529http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11529In the requisite song and dance awash in cheers and tears, the Winter Olympics end leaving behind more questions than answers. Chief of which is: "Are these glorious games any longer worth it?" Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11521http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11521 NEW YORK (CNS) -- The prospect of being led through Lewis Carroll's looking-glass by director Tim Burton is liable to fill Catholic moviegoers with a mixture of excitement and apprehension. While eagerly anticipating how the talented Burton will render the world imagined in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) and "Through the Looking-Glass, And What Alice Found There" (1872), one also fears Burton might overwhelm Carroll's literary touchstones with his macabre sensibility. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11541http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11541NEW YORK (CNS) -- Wise viewers will want to "Keep Out" of "Cop Out" (Warner Bros.), a vulgar buddy comedy featuring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as long-standing New York City police partners. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11538http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11538NEW YORK (CNS) -- Maniacs take over Main Street in the rural rampage "The Crazies" (Overture). Despite relatively lavish production values and some well-known stars, director Breck Eisner's updating of George A. Romero's low-budget 1973 horror exercise carries on in the unfortunate tradition of what the Office for Film and Broadcasting termed the original's "blood-spurting ... mayhem." Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11513http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11513 WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace has asked the Obama administration to ensure that the Iraqi government takes steps to protect minorities, especially Christians, in the embattled country. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11520http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11520 BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) -- Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio March 1 called for the renewal of church life in the diocese by addressing changes he said are needed in parishes, schools and diocesan structures. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00 ESThttp://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11519http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=11519