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By Catholic News Service
ROME – Here is an explanation of some of the terms and practices related to the time between Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation at 8 p.m. Feb. 28 and the election of a new pope. “Sede vacante” Dioceses are also called sees. The Latin for “when the see is vacant” is “sede vacante.” When the vacant […]
National
By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Exemptions from the requirement to provide contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act will be simplified to include many more types of religious institutions and accommodate the needs of self-insured church entities that say they must keep a clear financial and functional wall between themselves and the provision of contraceptives. A new set […]
National
By Joseph Austin
WASHINGTON – Among the thousands of people gathered in Washington Jan. 25 for the annual March for Life were two best friends from Christendom College, Paul Wilson and John Schofield, who had walked eight miles from St. Mary’s Church in Alexandria, Va., on a “holy pilgrimage.” Others found their way on long bus trips from […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Vatican City State vendors, including the Vatican Museums and supermarket, stopped accepting credit- and debit-card payments Jan. 1, citing technical difficulties amid unofficial reports of regulatory concerns by Italian financial authorities. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said late Jan. 2, “The arrangement between several Vatican City State offices and one of […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way Nov. 26 for a federal appeals court to take up a Christian college’s challenge to the Affordable Care Act, reopening one of several lawsuits filed by religious and other groups who oppose elements of the law. The court ordered the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Members of the Synod of Bishops recommended the Vatican establish a commission to monitor religious freedom, develop guidelines for training evangelizers and ensure there is a church in every diocese where confession is always available. At the end of the three-week world Synod of Bishops on new evangelization, members of the gathering […]
Local
Aneel Aranha, a well-regarded Catholic evangelist from Dubai, will conduct a full-day “Growth Retreat” April 14 at Tuscany Hall, 21125 Kettle Club Rd., Culpeper, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The retreat is intended to help Catholics grow in prayer, faith and their relationships. Aranha is the founder of Holy Spirit Interactive, a Catholic lay […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – It was Oct. 11, 1962, and the bishop of Inchon, Korea, was walking in a procession of more than 2,200 other bishops into St. Peter’s Basilica on the opening day of the Second Vatican Council. “Every light was on in the basilica because of television,” said the bishop, ordained for the Maryknoll […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Here are the 16 documents approved by the Second Vatican Council, which ran from Oct. 11, 1962, to Dec. 8, 1965, and their dates of promulgation: – Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (“Sacrosanctum Concilium”), Dec. 4, 1963. It ordered an extensive revision of worship so that people would have a clearer sense of […]
National
By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – A majority of white working-class Catholics – 56 percent – think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute. A smaller majority of the same category of Catholics – 52 percent – favors same-sex marriage, said the study released Sept. 20. In […]
