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By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON – When the Villanova Wildcats beat the Seton Hall Pirates in a recent men’s basketball, it wasn’t just a hard-fought victory in the tough Big East conference. The game also was a win for the people of the Republic of South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, thanks to a partnership between Villanova University and […]
Global
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – As violence continued to shake Syria, the Vatican nuncio in Damascus called on the international community to unite in efforts to restore peace. “In Damascus, the last three days have been very difficult” as the fighting moved to the city, Archbishop Mario Zenari, the nuncio, told Catholic News Service in a telephone […]
Arts
By Adam Shaw
NEW YORK – Even as people across the nation continue to mourn the children and teachers who were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the question of what drove killer Adam Lanza to commit such a horrific crime is already being debated. Violent video games were cited as an aggravating factor by some […]
National
By Catholic News Service
RICHMOND – Virginia Catholics hailed the signing of a law that protects faith-based organizations from being forced to violate their religious tenets when placing children for adoption or foster care. It also protects agencies from being punished for following those tenets. Virginia became the second state in the nation to enact such a law. North […]
Global
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 […]
Movies
Epic screen version of Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 novel, previously made into a successful stage play, about an English farmer’s son (newcomer Jeremy Irvine) who trains and cares for a thoroughbred horse that his father (Peter Mullan) misguidedly buys just to thwart the local squire (David Thewlis). Despite the animal’s successful adaptation to farm work, and […]
National
By Valerie Schmalz Catholic News Service
SAN FRANCISCO – The Vatican is working to authenticate whether the 1997 healing of an Oakland-area man with incurable cancer came about through the intercession of Father Franz Stock, a German Army chaplain to Paris prisoners of the Nazis. Such authentication is needed before the priest’s beatification can be approved. Father Stock was “the last […]
Global
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has named Bishop Gintaras Grusas, a 51-year-old Washington, D.C., native, to be the new archbishop of Vilnius, Lithuania. The new archbishop, who has served as head of Lithuania’s military ordinariate since 2010, succeeds 76-year-old Cardinal Audrys Backis. The Vatican announced April 5 that the pope had accepted Cardinal Backis’ resignation […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Jan. 25 dismissed a lawsuit filed against the federal contraceptive mandate by the Archdiocese of Washington and its co-plaintiffs, saying the case is premature in light of the government’s “promises to amend the mandate.” “Importantly, this ruling was not based on the merits of […]
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 […]
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Pope Leo XIV
6/2/26
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