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By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – One U.S. Catholic bishop hailed the repeal of the death penalty in Maryland as “a courageous step toward a culture of life.” The comment, by Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, Calif., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, was issued May 2, the day Maryland Gov. Martin […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
MANILA, Philippines – Authorities announced that at least 24 “penitents” are expected to be nailed on the cross on Good Friday, an annual ritual meant to atone for sins and give thanks to God for blessings. But the country’s Catholic bishops warned the faithful against resorting to extreme forms of sacrifice on Good Friday, including […]
National
By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Ben Stahlberg always wondered what was involved in choosing a pope. A senior lecturer in religious studies at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., Stahlberg was raised Jewish, but made plenty of Catholic friends as a child when his family lived in Kennebunk, Maine. So Catholicism and the papacy are not totally foreign to […]
Pope Francis
By Francis X. Rocca
VATICAN CITY – The Clementine Hall is traditionally the place where cardinals bid farewell to popes at the end of a pontificate, but usually when the pope in question is lying in state before his funeral. But on Feb. 28, hours before resigning from the papacy, Pope Benedict XVI briefly addressed the College of Cardinals, […]
Pope Francis
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service April 19, 2005: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, 78, elected pope and takes the name Benedict XVI. Dec. 22, 2005: In a meeting with top aides at the Vatican, Pope Benedict insists the teaching of the Second Vatican Council must be read in continuity with the church’s tradition. Sept. 12, 2006: In a speech […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – From the moment he was elected pope at the age of 78 in 2005, Pope Benedict XVI has kept a schedule that appeared light compared to that of Blessed John Paul II, but busy for a man who already had a pacemaker and who wanted to retire to study, write and pray […]
National
By Lynnea Pruzinsky Mumola Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – For Herman Ray, a Native American from Arizona, and Franciscan Sister Margaret Christi Karwowski, currently living in the Washington Archdiocese, the canonization of two Americans last Oct. 21 – Sts. Kateri Tekakwitha and Marianne Cope – confirmed something they already knew: the holiness of two remarkable women. “She has been my guide in […]
National
By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Should the Christmas shopping crowds, costs and commercialism be at odds with how one is trying to observe Advent and the celebration of the birth of Christ, there’s a burgeoning world of alternative ways of gift-giving that are vying for attention. – Angel trees or giving trees set up in churches, schools or […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The white open-air jeep Blessed John Paul II was riding in when he was shot May 13, 1981, was taken out of storage and put on display in the Vatican Museums’ newly revamped Popemobile Pavilion. The move wasn’t meant to sensationalize the tragic event or turn it into a sideshow, but to […]
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