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By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Experts have just concluded a two-year study on the seven adult mummies in the Vatican Museums’ collections. The mummies underwent a full battery of X-rays, CT scans, endoscopic explorations, histological exams and a whole spectrum of genetic testing, leading one researcher to joke: “These mummies have gotten more medical attention now than […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Christmas in St. Peter’s Square this year has a particularly southern Italian flavor with a towering tree from the Molise region and a Nativity scene donated by the Basilicata region. Jesus, Mary and Joseph will be nestled in an artistic re-creation of the picturesque rocky setting of Matera’s famed “sassi” – a […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY – The “pope’s newspaper” is a paper of information and ideas at the service of truth and justice, Pope Benedict XVI said. L’Osservatore Romano, therefore, must continue to put focus on important issues of the day like bioethics and on women’s perspectives, ecumenism and relations with Jews, the pope said. The pope praised […]
Books
By Nancy Frazier O’brien
WASHINGTON – The Vatican criticism of Mercy Sister Margaret Farley’s 2006 book, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, reflects a misunderstanding of what a Catholic theologian should do and is both ill-timed and unfair, according to theologians at a variety of U.S. Catholic universities. “All persons who care about the Catholic intellectual tradition […]
National
By Catherine Mcdonough
WASHINGTON – St. Augustine’s “Confessions,” the autobiographical account of his sinful youth and eventual conversion to Christianity, may be a centuries-old story but its message still resonates today, according to the head of Ignatius Press. For the first time, a feature film – titled “Restless Heart” – will tell the story of the fifth-century doctor […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Jesuit Father Jose Funes is pleased with the successful landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars, and he thinks “everybody should be happy with the success.” The Argentine Jesuit, director of the Vatican Observatory, said the rover’s mission is important: “to see if we can learn a bit more about Mars and […]
Pope Francis
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VATICAN CITY – Marking the seventh anniversary of the election of Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican is offering a “widget” – a software application – that will allow anyone with a website or blog to provide readers with automatically updated news and documents from the Vatican. The Vatican’s Internet Office announced April 19 that the […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The mothers of priests and seminarians deserve the thanks of the whole church for raising their sons in the faith and supporting them in their vocations, said Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy. Writing on the Jan. 1 feast of Mary, Mother of God, the cardinal said having a […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – With a hymn and a prayer, Italian Archbishop Rino Fisichella presented the Vatican’s initial calendar of events for the Year of Faith, which begins with a Mass Oct. 11 in St. Peter’s Square. Archbishop Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, said the pope has invited as concelebrants bishops […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – To help bishops determine the credibility of alleged Marian apparitions, the Vatican has translated and published procedural rules from 1978 that had previously been available only in Latin. The “Norms regarding the manner of proceedings in the discernment of presumed apparitions or revelations” were approved by Pope Paul VI in 1978 and […]
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