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Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI named a priest who is an expert in cinema and communications to head the Vatican’s television production center, CTV. Father Dario Edoardo Vigano, 50, replaces Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, as director of CTV, while the Jesuit remains general director of Vatican Radio and head of the Vatican press office. […]
Local
By Chris Donahue Catholic News Service
COLONIA, N.J. – The 360 students at St. John Vianney School got a lesson in charity from Anthony Giacobbe when he distributed copies of the book “Heaven Is for Real” at a recent assembly. But Giacobbe, a member of St. John Vianney Parish, hopes the most important things the students learn from The New York […]
Pope Francis
By Catholic News Service
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Wearing new clerical suits, the 62 new students at the Pontifical North American College received a personal greeting from Pope Benedict XVI, to which they responded in song. “Dear seminarians, use your time in Rome to conform yourselves more completely to Christ,” the pope told the young men Aug. 26 after […]
National
By Chaz Muth
FONDA, N.Y. – With the beat of a drum sounding and the scent of burning sage and sweet grass permeating the hot, humid air, Native American Catholics honored a woman they already consider a saint July 14, her feast day. This year’s celebration was special, because in October the Algonquin-Mohawk woman who died more than […]
National
By Angela Cave Catholic News Service
AURIESVILLE, N.Y. – As the sun set on the 73rd annual Tekakwitha Conference at its namesake’s birthplace July 21, dozens of pilgrims joined hands and formed a circle, launching a traditional dance symbolic of friendship. It also seemed to represent what many attendees described as a feeling of coming full circle as members of the […]
Schools
By For The Catholic Herald
The annual National Catholic Educational Association Convention and Expo will be held March 29-31 at the San Diego Convention Center. More than 300 professional development sessions will be offered for teachers, administrators, pastors and Catholic school community leaders. David Coleman, CEO and president of the College Board, will give the keynote presentation on “Reverence, Excellence […]
National
By Nancy Frazier O’brien
WASHINGTON – Ten years after passing their “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” the heads of nearly all U.S. dioceses are in full compliance with the 17-point document, according to recently completed audits. Two dioceses – Baker, Ore., and Lincoln, Neb. – and six Eastern Catholic eparchies refused to participate in the […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin, secretary of the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, to be archbishop of Indianapolis. The appointment was announced Oct. 18 in Washington by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the United States. Archbishop Tobin, 60, succeeds Archbishop […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Archbishop George H. Niederauer of San Francisco and named Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of Oakland, Calif., to succeed him. The appointment and resignation were announced in Washington July 27 by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the United States. Archbishop Niederauer, 76, had headed […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Msgr. Robert J. Coyle, a priest of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y., who spent 10 years of his priesthood in the military chaplaincy, has been appointed an auxiliary bishop of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services. Bishop-designate Coyle, 48, is a retired Navy reservist. He has been pastor of Corpus Christi […]
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Pope Leo XIV
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