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By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – In an effort to protect Michelangelo’s famed frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican Museums will be installing a new ventilation system to suck the dust, dirt and humidity from visitors. With 5 million tourists pushing through the turnstiles each year, all that traffic is taking its toll as “dust, temperature, humidity […]
National
By Karen Mahoney
MILWAUKEE – All smiles, Susan Kaeppeler, fourth-grade teacher at Kenosha’s St. Joseph Academy’s lower campus, was greeted with the red-carpet treatment when she arrived to class Jan. 16 after a whirlwind weekend where she saw her oldest daughter, Laura, crowned Miss America. The 23-year-old brunette, a Kenosha native, won the Miss America title at Planet […]
Global
By Peter Ajayi Dada Catholic News Service
LAGOS, Nigeria – A Nigerian archbishop credited security forces for preventing a catastrophe at a Christian church on Easter when a suicide bomber was turned away and ended up detonating a car bomb on a busy street in the northern city of Kaduna. Archbishop Mathew Ndagoso of Kaduna said that while the blast claimed dozens […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The need to defend religious liberty, a key issue this year for the U.S. Catholic bishops and other religious leaders, will now have a new venue for discussion and action in a handful of state legislatures. Leaders from nine states – Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Tennessee – […]
Movies
Amiable collection of stunts, performed with dirt bikes, monster trucks and even tricked-up Big Wheels, adapted for the big screen from the popular MTV series, with a crew headed by Travis Pastrana. The flying conveyances are balletic in slow motion, and their tricks are possibly not quite as dangerous as co-directors Gregg Godfrey and Jeremy […]
Local
The staff of the Catholic Herald hears about worthy charities, fundraising efforts and clothing drives year-round, but especially at this time of year. Our own parishes hold food drives or put up giving trees, our families bring home fliers about school collections, and our friends tells us about the latest Knights of Columbus project or […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Fresh soil on compact dirt, a small pile of rubble, incense, gold-trimmed liturgical vestments and the sound of dozens of young men singing “Holy God We Praise They Name” meant it was groundbreaking day at the Pontifical North American College. The seminary, sponsored by the U.S. bishops, officially embarked April 12 on […]
National
By Catholic News Service
BISMARCK, N.D. – North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple’s signature on three pro-life bills “affirms our state’s commitment to the protection of all human life,” Bishop David D. Kagan of Bismarck said March 26. Protecting life “from the moment of conception to natural death is the primary purpose of government,” the bishop said in a statement. […]
National
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – As Notre Dame prepared to play Alabama Jan. 7 in college football’s Bowl Championship Series title game, it seemed like the clash of the titans. Alabama has won nine titles – at least, first-place rankings in the polls – since the “bowl era” began in the 1930s. Notre Dame has won eight, although […]
National
By Maria Wiering
BALTIMORE – Jim Bolduc has two favorite pieces of college football memorabilia – a Fighting Irish photo montage of its famed 1988 win over the University of Miami, and a football autographed by Navy quarterback and 1963 Heisman Trophy winner Roger Staubach. As a 1990 University of Notre Dame graduate and a U.S. Naval Academy […]
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Pope Leo XIV
6/2/26
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