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By Judith Sudilovsky
JERUSALEM – Bishops who traveled to the Holy Land to assess the local church’s needs noted the “profound anxiety” that the “dark and dramatic events” of the past year have caused in the region. Syria’s civil war has resulted in an increasingly large number of refugees pouring into other countries, putting an enormous strain on […]
National
By Beth Griffin
NEW YORK – As headliners for a glittering event that raised $5 million for Catholic health care programs in the Archdiocese of New York, President Barack Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney briefly suspended their vociferous campaign rhetoric to exchange humorous jibes Oct. 18 at the 67th annual dinner of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial […]
Local
By Katie Bahr
Sometimes, daydreams can be life-changing. Take Jessica Aldrich, for example. In 2007, she was getting ready to graduate from George Mason University in Fairfax. One day while she was trying to pray in the university’s Bellarmine Chapel, she couldn’t concentrate. Instead of thinking about prayer, her thoughts kept drifting to the idea of missionary work. […]
National
By Catholic News Service
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Bishop Robert W. Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph was convicted Sept. 6 of one count of failing to report suspected child abuse and acquitted on another count in a brief bench trial. Jackson County Circuit Judge John M. Torrence issued the verdict and quickly set and suspended a sentence of two […]
National
By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, is discontinuing its student health insurance plan in the upcoming school year in opposition to the Obama administration’s mandate requiring most religious employers, including colleges, to provide no-cost contraceptive and sterilization coverage in its health insurance plans. The school made the announcement to its students in mid-April and […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis became the first pope to tour the excavated necropolis where St. Peter is buried, said Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman. With explanations from the two directors of the necropolis, the pope walked down the central path between the mostly second-century burial chambers April 1, then went up a slight […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca
VATICAN CITY – Recalling that Christ’s mission transcends “all ethnic, national and religious particularities,” Pope Benedict XVI created six new cardinals from four different continents, representing the Latin rite of the Catholic Church as well as two Eastern Catholic Churches. The churchmen who joined the College of Cardinals Nov. 24 were U.S. Archbishop James M. […]
Columns
By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON – A wide majority of Massgoers are satisfied with the new English translation of the Roman Missal introduced a year ago at Advent, a survey showed. Seventy percent of Catholics responding agreed that the translation is a “good thing,” according to results of the survey conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the […]
Columns
By Peter Finney Jr.
NEW ORLEANS – Among the thousands of pilgrims trekking to Rome for the Oct. 21 canonization of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha – “the Lily of the Mohawks” – will be 4-year-old Katherine Kateri Howat from Metairie, La., dressed as a Mohawk princess. She likely will be on her father’s shoulders in St. Peter’s Square trying to […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
ROME – As the church is set to begin the Year of Faith and a synod on the new evangelization, the rosary can play a key role in strengthening and spreading the word of God, said a leading American expert in Marian studies. “This Year of Faith is a call for evangelization, a new evangelization […]
