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By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Like Pope Pius XI, who founded Vatican Radio and built the Vatican train station, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs recognized the importance of expanding communication, a Jesuit told Vatican Radio. Jobs, 56, died Oct. 5 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Father Antonio Spadaro, the new editor of the influential Jesuit journal […]
National
By Patricia Zapor
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 […]
Global
By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON – The destruction from Typhoon Bopha in portions of Mindanao in the southern Philippines is worse than feared as rescue workers continued to discover bodies under knee-deep mud, said a Catholic Relief Services official coordinating the agency’s storm response. “It looks like a tsunami hit. It’s just complete and total destruction. Whole hillsides were […]
National
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles and 35 other cardinals, bishops and priests to serve as full members of the Synod of Bishops. The papal appointees, whose names were announced Sept. 18, will join more than 200 other synod members who were elected by […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – People in Syria are “stunned and deeply saddened and worried for the future,” said Archbishop Mario Zenari, the Vatican nuncio to Syria. In an interview with Vatican Radio Aug. 21, the nuncio said the previous day’s withdrawal of U.N. forces was “a sad blow. Three or four months ago, there was a […]
Schools
By Shannon Kerns
Kayleen Nagurny, a junior at Seton School in Manassas, rapidly has become an artist of astonishing skill. She recently was the featured artist at the Ashburn Spring Hills Suites Art night and her pencil portrait of the late Warren Carroll, founding president of Christendom College in Front Royal, adorns the wall of a Seton classroom. […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – It is possible the world’s cardinals will not begin meeting at the Vatican until March 4, and they cannot set a start date for the conclave until they have met, the Vatican spokesman said. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, will send […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will present a papal document addressing the church’s concerns in the Middle East, meet with representatives of local Christian and Muslim communities, and address political and cultural leaders on a three-day visit to Lebanon Sept. 14-16. Pope Benedict’s primary task on the trip will be to present a document, […]
Columns
By Ann M. Augherton
How do you celebrate the birthday of the Holy Father? How about some Bavarian dancers, nostalgic “oompah” music and a maypole? Oh and make sure his older brother is there for the festivities. That’s just what a contingent from his homeland of Bavaria did today. Traditionally dressed folk dancers performed the skirt-twirling Schuhplattler dance complete […]
Global
By David Agren Catholic News Service
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – The celebrating started late March 18. Outside the Metropolitan Cathedral, in the expansive Plaza de Mayo, rock bands played. Vendors in the area peddled pictures and posters of Pope Francis, as well as pope-themed cushions, calendars and key rings. Seminarians and youth groups began praying for the new pope. Trucks came […]
