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By Mark Patton
WASHINGTON – Catholics are at risk of losing their connection to the land, according to a professor from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. “There are 244 Catholic degree-granting institutions in the United States, and not one of them offers an undergraduate degree program in agriculture,” said Christopher Thompson, academic dean at […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
ROME – The halls of history might hold some clues as to what kind of impact Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation will have on the church and how to navigate a smooth transition, said a U.S. scholar. “All these problems surrounding how to treat Benedict, what to call him, how he will be dealt with in […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY- The 115 cardinals participating in the conclave will know the identity of the new pope before the rest of the world, but their advance knowledge is likely to last for well over an hour, and even more in the unlikely event that the candidate they choose is not in the Sistine Chapel with […]
Columns
By George Weigel
Of all the commentary I’ve read on Notre Dame’s decision to invite President Obama to receive an honorary doctorate of laws as the university’s 2009 commencement speaker, the most disturbing came from Father Kenneth Himes of the Boston College theology department. In a Boston Globe story about Professor Mary Ann Glendon’s courageous (and correct) decision […]
National
By Catholic News Service
WHEELING, W.Va. – Bishop Michael J. Bransfield of Wheeling-Charleston said the “false hearsay statements” made against him at the recently concluded Philadelphia trial of two priests on sex abuse-related charges have hurt him, his family and the people of his diocese. In a July 23 letter to the priests and people of the Wheeling-Charleston Diocese, […]
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 […]
Local
By Effie Caldarola
Why does family history matter? I asked myself that question as I put together some albums of ancestry for my kids for Christmas. Is there anyone among us who hasn’t lamented at some point, “Gee, I wish I would have asked Grandma – or Grandpa or Dad or Uncle Joe – more questions about the […]
Columns
By Osv Editorial Board
The following unsigned editorial is from the June 3 issue of Our Sunday Visitor, a national Catholic newsweekly based in Huntington, Ind. It was written by the newspaper’s editorial board. The Catholic Church in the United States is in the midst of a historic conflict that it did not initiate, that it cannot avoid, and […]
Schools
By John Garvey
Ten years ago, the U.S. Catholic bishops published the documents implementing “Ex Corde Ecclesiae,” Pope John Paul II’s apostolic constitution on Catholic higher education. At that time, most of the controversy focused on the requirement that Catholic teachers of theology receive a permit or commission of sorts – known as the mandatum – from their […]
National
By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – A majority of white working-class Catholics – 56 percent – think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute. A smaller majority of the same category of Catholics – 52 percent – favors same-sex marriage, said the study released Sept. 20. In […]
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