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By Sarah Macdonald
DUBLIN – In the wake of the largest pro-life demonstration ever to have taken place in Ireland, cracks have begun to emerge in the coalition government over its plans to legislate for abortion. More than 25,000 people converged on Dublin Jan. 19, braving bitterly cold weather, to attend the “Unite for Life” vigil in the […]
National
By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – In what now seem to have been heady days of the 1990s, Baptists, Catholics, the American Civil Liberties Union and People for the American Way were among the members of a philosophically diverse coalition that stood together in pursuit of a federal law protecting the free exercise of religion. Today, among those same […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – A Vatican-convoked commission of doctors concluded a healing attributed to Blessed John Paul II had no natural explanation, according to Italian news reports. Eventual papal approval of the alleged miracle would clear the way for the canonization of the pope, who died April 2, 2005, and was beatified May 1, 2011. Once […]
National
By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The Catholic Church’s observance of National Migration Week Jan. 6-12 this year comes at a time when the outlook seems promising for improving migrants’ legal situations in the United States. The annual observance of Migration Week this year focuses on encouraging Congress to approve comprehensive immigration reform and marking the 10th anniversary of […]
National
By Christopher S. Pineo
BOSTON – For the first time since St. Ignatius of Loyola formed the order in 1540, Jesuit educators came together from all over the world for the first International Colloquium on Jesuit Secondary Education, with the theme “The World is Our House.” According to organizers from the host institution, Boston College High School, 400 educators […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – The Apostleship of Prayer, the Jesuit-run outreach that has brought Catholics the pope’s monthly prayer intentions since 1890, is in the midst of a serious effort to re-create itself and broaden its outreach. The revamping is focused on three areas: making the apostleship a digital prayer network; working with dioceses and parishes […]
National
By Patricia Zapur Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The Jesuit brethren of the new Pope Francis were as surprised as anyone when Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was announced March 13 as the first Jesuit to be elected pope. One Jesuit, who shares the pope’s Argentine roots and has known him since his own days as a novice, […]
Global
By Sarah Macdonald Catholic News Service
DUBLIN – Commemorations of the sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago will put the spotlight on a young Irish priest whose photographs are some of the only surviving images of life onboard the liner on its first and last voyage. Jesuit Father Frank Browne, 1880-1960, became a prominent documentary photographer and a much-decorated chaplain […]
Movies
Ambitious and largely successful 3-D adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ first novel propels a 19th-century American (Taylor Kitsch) to the planet Mars, where he becomes embroiled in a war between two city-states and falls in love with a princess (Lynn Collins). Despite an unwieldy and illogical mash-up of now-familiar sci-fi tropes, director Andrew Stanton nicely […]
National
By Daniel Linskey
WASHINGTON – After a sprint, a cartwheel and one, two, three twists in the air, Jordyn Wieber landed precisely on the mat. On July 31 Wieber, 17, earned a near flawless score on the vault – her score proved to be a major contribution to USA’s women’s gymnastics team’s gold medal victory over Russia. In […]
